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The "paranoid fiction" label (which had admittedly beguiled me into cracking this thing open) is quite deceiving.
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"I'm going to finish this behemoth and then never pick up another book again." — Nov 30, 2015 02:10PM
"I'm going to finish this behemoth and then never pick up another book again." — Nov 30, 2015 02:10PM
“Ideology claims to be binding for the whole society. This development leads to typical problems. As the complexity of society increases, so do the demands upon ideology as a schema for solving problems; in particular, there occurs an unsurveyable increase in the interdependencies among the individual components of an ideology, whose consistency must continue to be maintained. Changes, accommodations, and renovations in an ideology become markedly dífficult, because every small step can have unforeseeable repercussions upon the premises appealed to. The burdens upon the reflexive and opportunistic mechanisms anchored in ideology then become excessive.”
― The Differentiation of Society
― The Differentiation of Society
“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
― Murphy
― Murphy
“Author here.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“Knowing that internal stress could cause failure on the exam merely set up internal stress about the prospect of internal stress.”
― The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
― The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
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