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“The thing about not breathing is no one tells you how addictive it is. That tingling rush, the buzz in every neuron as they eat through oxygen stores and reach for more and find nothing. It feels like a billion miniscule teeth digging into your brain. A shimmering wave of needle pricks starting in your lungs and skittering up your brain stem like a silvery centipede and spreading over your whole scalp, numbing you like a drug.”
― Cam Girl
― Cam Girl
“Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century; it killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years.”
― The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
― The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
“I had rarely before paid much attention to the natural world. But my exposure to traditional
magicians and seers was shifting my senses; I became increasingly susceptible to the solicitations of nonhuman things. In the course of struggling to decipher the magicians’ odd gestures or to fathom
their constant spoken references to powers unseen and unheard, I began to see and to hear in a manner I never had before.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
magicians and seers was shifting my senses; I became increasingly susceptible to the solicitations of nonhuman things. In the course of struggling to decipher the magicians’ odd gestures or to fathom
their constant spoken references to powers unseen and unheard, I began to see and to hear in a manner I never had before.”
― The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
“There is a phenomenon that occurs in the minds of many manic depressives when entering into either a manic or a depressive state that nobody claims to understand, but that bipolars from the far corners of the world can attest to: the consistent waking up at four o’clock in the morning. And when I say four o’clock, I mean four o’clock on the fucking dot. How many times have I given myself chills, waking up yet again after only two hours of sleep and looking over at the blinking red of a digital alarm clock only to see that number staring back at me? I’ve lost count. And the thing is, you don’t just wake up. You wake up with your mind racing, music churning over and over inside your head, the internal noise, words, pictures, absolutely unbearable, and it is absolutely impossible to go back to sleep.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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