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Their troubles were all over in a jiffy. They were dead and gone in thirty-five seconds flat. Poor James, on the other hand, was still very much alive, and all at once he found himself alone and frightened in a vast unfriendly world. The
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“A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.”
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“Ubiquitous listening makes music virtually imperceptible, and any music is welcome. For so long as the semblance of vital activity that a music expresses satisfies a mood, musical sounds escape the capture of genre – the habts of form – and become instead an affective residue that thurifies the affairs of the occasion.”
― Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure
― Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.”
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“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
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