Thursday, October 23, 2008

Humanity is a being in the first throws of evolution - a being not yet selected for consciousness.
Human beings, though ants, are conscious and vie to be it’s Queen.
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No one human being can know everything.

(this leap needs to be filled in)

Humanity strives to know everything by it’s very consciousness.

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Very long sentence: two human forces: the forces of knowledge and the forces of censorship,
‘good and evil’ or ‘evil and good’, depending whose side you’re on.

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(E likes writing: you can tell by the effort she puts into her work. Her sentences can be florid, exploratory - they have
an air of playfulness and pretense, the younger forms of genius and style. I remember when my own tone had that play - when I was a girl, imitating my father, imitating the great soft writers of the canon. Reading is incredibly difficult if you
do it right.

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I take every praise as a charity and every slight as a mortal offense because every word of praise is a great charity and every slight a moral offense which only a mortal might feel.

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Given a choice of one of three, two the same and one different, what do people chose?

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Nicole: ”What do you do on the internet?
Patrick: “I don’t know. Stuff happens.

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