Sublime

O modificador “mórbido” torna a gordura corporal uma pena de morte,

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

She thought of him as a source of knowledge rather than experience; a good, though not contemporary mind, a person rather than a man.

This close relationship between aging and inflammation has led to the clever neologism “inflamm-aging.”

The idea of collectivity resembles Hannah Arendt’s later notion of “thoughtlessness,” the condition she associated with Adolph Eichmann.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience.