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Janet Frame
“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
Janet Frame

David Foster Wallace
“...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch...”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
tags: weed

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field.
That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning.
This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it.
That life is the world.
That my will penetrates the world.
That my will is good or evil.
Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Notebooks 1914-1916

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

Arno Schmidt
“DIE KARTOFFELSORTIERMASCHINE rüttelte im Bogen=Lampen=Licht: Nichts Niemand Nirgends Nie! / Umdient von 4 Lemuren in fahler Tracht: die Schatten flohen manchmal entsetzt vor ihren eigenen Herren davon. (Zaunzu hülfesuchend? – Bei uns iss ooch keene.)”
Arno Schmidt, KAFF auch Mare Crisium

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