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The massive behavioral conditioning we’ve all been undergoing since the advent of ubiquitous electronic communications technology has changed us radically. But this dramatic, if not epochal, change is underappreciated. It’s underappreciated because we’re living in it as it happens, like frogs in cold water that slowly gets heated up without the fro
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body. I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
Again and again the cycle was repeated until the body and the mind arrived at a state of numbness in which the frenzied antics of the boat, the perpetual cold and wet came to be accepted almost as normal.
Alfred Lansing • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
crazed buoyancy
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
Hours passed. My muscles grew wobbly and weak, my feet
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
The laughter turns to groans. Blindness and unreason, rampant.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
There was a time when Paradise City had a tour bus, but they lost it last summer. This is not a euphemism; they literally can’t find it.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Vasquez’s pounding bitch-house tracks like ‘X’ and ‘Get Your Hands Off My Man’, or the Salsoul-sampling ‘Dub Break’ which he recorded as Ellis D,