Nature expects a full-grown man to accept the two black voids, fore and aft, as stolidly as he accepts the extraordinary visions in between.
Friday, July 23, 2010
I confess I do not believe in time
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour.)
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That's a great Nabokov quote. Brownie points.
just started s,m today!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-ambassador-schools-20100718,0,4742884.story
that made me so sick i couldn't finish reading it. 500+ million? the fools
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