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Mikhail Bulgakov
“Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Aldous Huxley
“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very far, man either vanishes altogether or loses his primacy. The astronomer looks even further afield than the Sung painter and sees even less of human life. At the other end of the scale the physicist, the chemist, the physiologist pursue the close-up – the cellular close-up, the molecular, the atomic and subatomic. Of that which, at twenty feet, even at arm’s length, looked and sounded like a human being no trace remains.
Something analogous happens to the myopic artist and the happy lover. In the nuptial embrace personality is melted down; the individual (it is the recurrent theme of Lawrence’s poems and novels) ceases to be himself and becomes a part of the vast impersonal universe.
And so it is with the artist who chooses to use his eyes at the near point. In his work humanity loses its importance, even disappears completely. Instead of men and women playing their fantastic tricks before high heaven, we are asked to consider the lilies, to meditate on the unearthly beauty of ‘mere things,’ when isolated from their utilitarian context and rendered as they are, in and for themselves. Alternatively (or, at an earlier stage of artistic development, exclusively), the nonhuman world of the near-point is rendered in patterns. These patterns are abstracted for the most part from leaves and flowers – the rose, the lotus, the acanthus, palm, papyrus – and are elaborated, with recurrences and variations, into something transportingly reminisce”
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

Mikhail Bulgakov
“I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Richard Evelyn Byrd
“The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night.”
Richard E. Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Aldous Huxley
“For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.”
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

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