H e t e r o t o p ia

H e t e r o t o p ia

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‘This is a quantum universe,’ said Spike, ‘neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.’ ‘What do you suggest I do ― to intervene?’ Spike leaned forward and kissed me. ‘Bend the light.’ PhD Uppsala

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The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. ― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

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"The world is a den of thieves and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.”

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When the train bore me away, I remembered something that once seemed important to remember: “I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas #Photography Michael Wolf

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"A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth." ― Joseph Conrad

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History #BookSky

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"The eyes are the organic prototype of philosophy. Their enigma is that they not only can see but are also able to see themselves seeing. [...] A good part of philosophical thinking is actually only eye reflex, eye dialectic, seeing-onself-see." ― Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason

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The "Symphonie Monoton-Silence" ('Monotone-Silence Symphony') is a piece of minimalist music by the French artist Yves Klein. It consists of 20 minutes of an orchestra performing the chord of D major, followed by a 20 minute silence.

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"Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island." ― Albert Camus, American Journals (1978) #BookSky

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"Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came." ― Max Picard, The World of Silence #BookSky