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The Lost World
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"Got them 'loan will expire and people are waiting' library blues. Time to crank this to 1.5x speed!" May 08, 2025 06:57AM

 
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And then but so what’s the difference between tennis and suicide, life and death, the game and its own end? It’s always Schtitt who ends up experimenting with some exotic ice-cream flavor, when they arrive. Mario always chickens out and ...more
Tom Quinn
Possibly the most important section re: the drive of athleticism and E.T.A. philosophy in general. "The chance to play, yes?" is something I've shouted good-naturedly more than once after taking up this book a few times.
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Philip K. Dick
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
Philip K. Dick, VALIS

John Steinbeck
“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Hakim Bey
“The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat � & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you � so don’t play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr � accept the fact that you’re a criminal & be prepared to act like one.”
Hakim Bey, TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

Ray Bradbury
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this:

WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT,
BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP.

only he didn't say "doggone.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

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