Michele

“For a story was only as good as its villain.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“We shouldn't confuse grief over the passing of our favorite technology with resentment because some digital alchemy failed to preserve analog experiences. Whether or not we admit it, the internet and its artifacts are not just like their cultural precedents. They're not even a rough translation -- or a strong misreading -- of those precedents.”
― Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

“Before the scientific revolution, [man] did not feel himself isolated by his skin from the world outside to quite the same extent that we do. He was integrated, or mortised into it, each different part of him being united to a different part of it by some invisible thread. In his relation to his environment, the man of the middle ages was rather less like an island, rather more like an embryo.”
― Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry

“Faith, humility, fanaticism, and arrogance walk the same path. Faith and humility seek to understand the way, fanaticism and arrogance assume they know the way.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Key of Ahknaton