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“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
DFW

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day."
DFW

bookmarks:
listography GIVE A GIFT OF MEMORIES
fromblownspea... about me (resolutions 2024)
books (to read)
books (that i read in 2024)
travel (places i want to see)

3.5/5

  • Blue-white light, silence and swiveling around empty rooms
  • The planet has a brain; the ocean an imagination
  • Long shots of traffic on a highway
  • The silence in Solaris space station
  • How much can we trust our senses?
  • What is the difference between hallucinations/delusions and reality?
  • Real vs. fake - why can't we love a cloned version of somebody we've lost?
  • The limits of science
dec 5 2014 ∞
dec 26 2014 +