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"Production-consumption. You begin to wonder whether it isn’t just a question of making one kind of garbage into another kind. The human mind was the last thing to be commercialized but they’re doing a good job of it now; what is the difference between the library stacks and one of those used-car graveyards? What bothers me though is that none of it is ever final; you can’t ever finish anything."

Pixar references Joseph Campbell's hero's journey theory at the beginning of every story.

"We all know that fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun. This is common knowledge; sometimes we just don't know what to do about it." (Gilbert 13)

This is comprised of excerpts from many modern Buddhist books.

Innocence is ignorance and is destroyed by guilt. Huh.

Second time around. =)

It's good to read after Sartre's Being and Nothingness.

There are good ideas in here, but nothing I haven't read elsewhere and with less condescension.

I need to reread this after reading Hegel....

Let's not dress this up as "love." A boring, womanizing, stalking, obsessive pedophile is not romantic and Marquez is not at Nabokov's caliber.