"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Sunday, September 9, 2012

The Upside Down Clock...

Postmodernity offers not a meta-narrative of hope but rather many lesser narratives offering possibilities within the unknown.
 
(Photo: Education Week)
 
 
"Clocks offer at best a convenient fiction....They imply that time ticks steadily, predictably forward, when our experience shows that it often does the opposite: it stretches and compresses, skips a beat and doubles back.”
~ David Eagleman
 
“We are not conscious of the actual moment of the present. We are always a little late.”
~ Benjamin Libet


Quotes from: The New Yorker: The Possibilian


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