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e04c8ae
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No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
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humor
postmodern
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Philip K. Dick |
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fd0d64f
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"Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to."
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cloud-atlas
disgust
hate
history
postmodern
postmodernism
reflection
self-discovery
self-disgust
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David Mitchell |
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9e1959b
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So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
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improvement
learning-from-mistakes
loser
perspective
postmodern
postmodernism
winner
wisdom
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David Mitchell |
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040ccdc
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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.
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new-york
postmodern
power
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Jean Baudrillard |
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bd47527
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The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.
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ennui
life
postmodern
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Don DeLillo |
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14836b7
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Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made--and he had to make a choice--would be arbitrary, a submission to chance. Uncertainty would haunt him to the end. At that moment, the two Stillmans started on their way again. The first turned right, the second turned left. Quin craved an amoeba's body, wanting to cut himself in half and run off in two directions at once. (Chapter 7)
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postmodern
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Paul Auster |
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39bf4c1
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...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever. The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.
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cultural-myths
futurists
postmodern
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Don DeLillo |