February 2012
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
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“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstance to take part in...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”
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“Shut your eyes and see.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space? →
Fires can’t burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.
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“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”
– William S. Burroughs
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“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“I like beautiful melodies, telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits
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“To try to see God is like trying to look at your own eyes, for he is nearer to...”
– Alan Watts
“Everybody should do in their lifetime two things. One is to consider death… to...”
– Alan Watts
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“Without others there is no self, and without somewhere else there is no here, so...”
– Alan Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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“For the thinker, as for the artists, what counts in life is not the number of...”
– William Barrett, writing on Kierkegaard
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“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche