Sadrach Pierre

“What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching? What if it's not arousal that's so finitely circumscribed? What if in fact there were only like two really distinct individual people walking back there in history's mist? That all difference descends from this difference? The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type one, always rather two, one upside down in a convex lens.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.”
― David Foster Wallace , Infinite Jest

“That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared at in a class apart. One does not talk to a monkey in a zoo, or to a freak in a sideshow— one only stares.”
― Erving Goffman, Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings