With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of camp ... a seriousness that fails.
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.
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Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
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