I talk on the phone. I begin every day on the touch tone. This is what I need to bring me back. Voices.
- Delfina in Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso
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We think what’s happening during sleep is that you open the aperture of memory and are able to see this bigger picture. - Neuroscientist Matthew Walker in a NYTimes article.
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Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. - Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching, from a translation by S. Mitchell
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[…] with just-in-time-delivery and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately being sovereign, everything is of the moment, and the noise is deafening. - Ken Alexander, in the July/August 2007 editorial of The Walrus
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