She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.
“When a person is listening, to music or a radio or whatever, she is receiving only 2% as much data as she is when watching vids. It’s true - look at the size of any files you download from the nets. And then, if a person is reading, he is only taking in 2% as much data as someone who is listening. Text contains hardly any data at all. You can read for 2500 hours and use the same amount of your mind’s processing power as you would use watching vids for a single hour.”
― Ascending the Hourglass
― Ascending the Hourglass
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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