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“Chemistry never stops, Alice. Actually, nothing ever stops.”

Trent Bendix, Patricia Knows Best.

Internet: Before this, what did we ever do and call it living?

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

You cannot go at poetry directly. Not today. Not anymore.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

“Just listen, Deborah. It’s not about old paintings. Not entirely. Any kind of image can serve. It is really all about transport.”

Lawton Trumbull, The Three Days.

We must see materiality as an odd thing. An exception.

Gilbert Ravening, The Phantom of Mechanical Consistency.

Isolating something by naming it is what we do.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

“Damn you, Farley. You’re either drunk or crazy. Or both!”

“That’s it? Only three alternatives? Charles, old boy, what a narrow world you experience.”

Dickinson Holmes, The Book of Shoes.

Intelligence: a mysterious something that takes place in an armchair.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

“Everyone has to dwell in the internet culture, Caroline. Including me. But I do it my way—through bitter relentless mockery.”

Connor Archibald, Nothing in Particular.

Nietzsche updated: There are no facts but only models.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.