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at least on some level, to actually feel separate, you must also actually feel connected, for how can you be separate from something that you are not already connected to? And how can you connect to something that you are not already separate from?

are the “two broad genres” that Maud Ellmann suggests

I understand these books as commonly defined by an experimentation with different forms of autobiographical acts for the purpose of gaining self-insight and promoting self-development. They explore various mark-making techniques that might make the inner world better known, visible for observation, and ripe for analysis.

expressed the difference between zero and one. The problem of zero, or nonexistence, obsessed Leibniz. How could zero—pure potential—transform to one, a whole and complete material object? The transition between nothing and something is the central question of…well, everything. All our spiritual and intellectual systems—religion and science, but al

The knife is the weapon of the fugitive, the assassin, the secret courier, the turncoat—in short, the spy.

It was like something that had been foretold, something out of Aesop, both metaphorical and hysterical, like everything, I guess.