Esther Pierce

“We all lived for money, and that is what we died for.”
― William T. Vollmann, No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies

“Roxanne is dreaming in quantum code. Great swirling vortices of air, tornadoes and hurricanes.”
― James Aura, The Hurricane Code

“Early one morning in the spring of 1985, I woke up and walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and didn’t even know it.”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

“Yet what are we to make of the fact that there is a whole suite of chemicals that, when introduced into the brain, utterly change our experience of consciousness? Think of how the caffeine in coffee subtly sharpens the feeling of being alive (or at least awake), or how the psilocybin in a mushroom (and what could be more material than a mushroom?!) can radically alter our sense of self and our subjective experience of the world. The fact that consciousness can be altered by chemicals does not necessarily prove that consciousness is, at its core, a material phenomenon, but it would seem to lend at least some credence to the idea.[* 7]”
― Michael Pollan, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness