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The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Dashiell Hammett

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Book cover for Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion

Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster

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It is ‘a complex emotion that involves past-oriented cognition and a mixed affective signature’.2 Or, in lay terms, a bittersweet feeling in response to the past.

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“One last piece of advice,” Odette said. “Never trust someone unless you know what they’re getting out of it.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

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“I know this might be difficult for you to understand, but I have been doing this my entire life. Every cat show I have ever done is an interview. I was bred for this. Let me do my thing.” “You didn’t talk before,” I said. “And having a judge stick her finger up your ass is not the same thing as being interviewed for a television show.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

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“Can we begin to imagine a different kind of science? Thompson is making a modest start by putting his own work in touch with both neuroscience and Buddhism, as well as phenomenology. (He has participated in the Dalai Lama’s Mind and Life Dialogues.) Whatever else it is, a new science of consciousness will likely be a hybrid enterprise, informed by the values of empiricism and experiment but also by philosophy, imagination, and the arts (as Levin suggested); Indigenous epistemologies; Buddhism and other spiritual traditions; personal experience and intuition; and, yes, altered states of consciousness too.”
― Michael Pollan, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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“Yeah, that wasn’t very manly of you, Carl. I thought nut-kicking was a big no-no amongst guys.” “It’s not something I want to make a habit of doing,” I said. “But if it works, it works.” Zev: Yes, Carl. Try to avoid that if you can. A few viewers have made some snide comments. Carl: For fuck’s sake. I can really do without the random peanut gallery comments. Donut: I BET THE SYSTEM AI LIKED IT.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

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“Thompson believes that Indigenous cultures, with their radically different epistemologies (less “objective,” more “participatory”), have much to teach us on this score, if only we would take them seriously—that is, see them as having epistemologies and not just mythologies. I was reminded of the ayahuasqueros, the shamans of the Amazon Basin, who will tell you, when asked about the source of their astonishing ethnobotanical knowledge (including the not-at-all-obvious recipe for combining two plant species to make ayahuasca), that the plants, through dreams and visions, teach them what to do. Our culture, formed and bound by empirical science, will never credit such an explanation. But what if there is some important sense in which it is true? There is a steep cost, Thompson believes, to Western science’s blind spot, and it is this: “We have lost our empathetic resonance with the larger universe.”
― Michael Pollan, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

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