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If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one’s engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been a ...more
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My favorites are the sections with Ushikawa, Noboru Wataya's hired muscle. I love the "gentleman thug" archetype, so polite and friendly seeming but everything's a veiled threat.

And of course May Kasa…
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Our children, full-grown now, can never forgive us for reproducing. What a mess.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

William Faulkner
“(and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)”
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

Wendell Berry
“The approach of a man's life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive.”
Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays, 1965-1980

Seneca
“Just as with storytelling, so with life: it's important how well it is done, not how long.”
Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
“Let me advise you to commence at once observing for yourself.
Don't trust what you are told in lectures, or read in books, but make the knowledge your own, by your own labors.
Lectures and books will serve as guides and beacons, but the goals can only be reached by travelling the road yourself.”
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

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