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A human in the universe equals a shifting place
as seen from a shifting point of view
complicated by the invention of time
and the need for attention.

 

"I arrived here in 1980 when that neighborhood was
already too chic for me to afford to live in. Those
painters were already getting famous. I'm trying to
get something going with a guy in Frankfurt. We'll
get in on the next style before it's too late."
-- fame-based logic of an anonymous painter in West Berlin

 

Immortality as a goal has been popularly replaced with

the goal of celebrated, recognized and well-paid mortality.

 

After a minute or so the spectators gradually realized
tht Grock was not really juggling the balls but only
pretending to do so. After a second minute there came
the realization that pretending to do the juggling was
actually a better trick—and more difficult to accomplish—
than the juggling itself would have been.
-- George Bailey

 

...in which sometimes the answers preceed the questions

like in the Jeopardy game.

...moves through a section of the world like waste moves

through the colon.

...constructs what it describes as it describes what it

constructs.

 

 

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