2014-06-07, 12:59 p.m.: When Lisbeth Salander smokes, I want to smoke. 0 comments
2014-06-05, 11:05 a.m.: From Ursula K. LeGuin's latest blog entry: "... [T]he developing human brain loses or abandons this seamless occupancy of the world. People begin to question the size and shape of the space they occupy and the length of time they occupy it. They become restless and uncomfortable, they feel incomplete. Dissatisfied with the parameters of their being, they seek to change or escape them. This dissatisfaction has been called divine discontent. In Buddhism recognition of it is dukkha, the First Noble Truth. ... "Human beings discovered long ago that escape from limitations of time and space is possible through altering perception � by imagination, dream, stargazing, getting drunk, getting high, intellectual concentration, contemplation, art, mystical practice. Again, the escapade doesn�t last, since when it ends you�re right back in your own body, but it is a well-tested and popular tactic. "Symbolic language provides one of these means of altering perception. Writing and reading can occupy the mind with a symbolic experience completely excluding local awareness. Of course, eventually the book ends and you�re back where you started from. Although �you� may not be entirely the same person that started out to read the book." 0 comments
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