Binah Simulacra

“Is intelligence always good? I wonder. What if intelligence is wasted? What if intelligence leads to more loneliness rather than to fulfillment? What if instead of productivity and clarity, it generates pain, isolation, and regret?”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Idaho is empty. He is an emptiness. Like the space you leave behind when you get out of a chair. It’s like after a loud noise, when all you hear is the sound of yourself listening. What is there is only was. That’s it. Idaho is was.”
― Tony Burgess, Idaho Winter: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle

“It’s amazing how quickly having someone telling you what you’re seeing replaces you actually seeing what you’re seeing.”
― Tony Burgess, Idaho Winter: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle

“I think there's a perception that fear and terror and dread are fleeting. That they hit hard and fast when they do, but they don't last. It's not true. They don't fade unless they're replaced by some other feeling. Deep fear will stay and spread if it can. You can't outrun or outsmart or subdue it. Untreated, it will only fester. Fear is a rash.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things