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From the beginning, it was a play with no plot and no players that were anything more than portions of a master drive of purposeless self-mutilation.
“When you recall something - this conversation, perhaps, a hundred years from now - there will be things about it that you misremember. Yet those misremembered details will themselves become part of your memory, gaining solidity and texture with each instance of recall. A thousand years from now, your memory of this conversation might bear little resemblance to reality. Yet you’d swear your recollection was accurate.”
― Zima Blue and Other Stories
― Zima Blue and Other Stories
“He had the sense of penetrating something membranous which clung elastically to his face. Then he heard a voice say: 'It was amazing to them to discover they had always been in the garden without understanding it', and knew for certain that the inside and the outside of everything are always a single, continuous medium. In that moment he believed he could go anywhere. With a shout of elation he attempted to fall forward in all possible directions at once; only to find to his dismay that in the very exercise of this privilege he had selected one of them.”
― Light
― Light
“Jump in the urinal and stand on your head
I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
Lean over the bowl and then take a dive
All of you are dead. I am alive.”
― Ubik
I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.
Lean over the bowl and then take a dive
All of you are dead. I am alive.”
― Ubik
“For the longest second imaginable, my mind was a black hole, as if my emotions had sucked away the rational part of my brain and left a cavernous skull full of nothing but fear. I can remember that terror now, and can visualize the scene as if in a photograph: emerald-green pasture, black-and-white Luke in full stride just where he ought to be, and a white bullet of doom streaking across the grass toward him.”
― For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
― For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
“I want to know more about what dogs are feeling, and how those feelings compare with mine. I want to know because I was trained as a scientist and am driven by the druglike excitement of discovery. I want to know because I think it's important for our species to understand where we fit in with the rest of life. In addition, so much suffering - in both species - could be prevented if we had a better understanding of the emotional lives of our dogs. My dogs are as important to me as my human friends. They are my buddies, my family, my co-workers, my therapists, and, like all good friends, occasionally thorns in my side. I want to know more about who they are, and what they are feeling - partly from a desire to give them the best life I can, and partly from a desire to deepen our friendship”
― For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
― For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend
aden’s 2025 Year in Books
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