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look away from the screen and over at Christie. Randy hands me the joint and I take a toke and close my eyes but I’m so stoned right now that the hit doesn’t do anything, just moves me to the pseudorealization that I am located somewhere beyond communication.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Informers (Vintage Contemporaries)
Without the light from the moon, the night was so dark he could barely make out the trees until he was almost bumping into them.
Ruth Ozeki • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
L. M. Sacasas • Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,
... See moreCompletely dazed as I already am, even without this, by the orgy of colour in the scene, the picture they paint of what happened on this once desert expanse makes me dizzier still.
Christiane Ritter • A Woman in the Polar Night (Pushkin Press Classics)
The sensation of being in a dream kept me from feeling fatigue and also kept me from wondering what would await us at the end of our journey. I just kept walking, numb. After a while, I was neither particularly surprised nor unsurprised by anything we encountered.
Andrew S. Grove • Swimming Across
mediocre play watched
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Dismayed. Disillusioned. Disenfranchised. Depressed.
Struggling to understand