001460

“Language, you see, is a lot like a bow, in that if you don’t bend it, it doesn’t shoot. But it’s also like Russian Roulette. Because any damage that the bend does … or failing to bend it properly … results in it shooting you in the...

001463

Officer: What were you doing? I was dancing. Officer: Where? At the concourse. Between the museums. Officer: Were you previously authorized to dance in public? No. Officer: Why did you do it? I had to dance. It was raining. The music in my mind… Officer: Do you...

001467

“If Western Civilization is so great, why is everyone I know crying on the inside? A lot of us are straight-up dying of loneliness and … estrangement. Whatever this is … here … in America … we are not together any more. It’s not One...

001470

“There exist certain species of refutation that are pre-linguistic, pre-structural, pre-cognitive, and, in fact, pre-temporal. We should not propagate them unnecessarily, but they must be understood.” — an anonymous informant

001471

“It was somehow made clear to me… by features of my mind that are primordial to all other features… through a series of comparisons between original and changed signals … or moments of transformation … that only the first signal was real....