Thursday, June 6, 2013

the mending of the severed extremity that links the hivemind

Strong recommendation for "1Q84." The book touches on the significance of vivid memories of insignificant events one carries through his or her life, with people one cannot call a friend.



“Not that I want to see him again or anything. I really don’t. We wouldn’t have anything to talk about, for one thing. It’s just that I still have this vivid image of him ‘pulling rats out’ of blocks of wood with total concentration, and that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me something—or tries to. People need things like that to go on living—mental landscapes that have meaning for them, even if they can’t explain them in words. Part of why we live is to come up with explanations for these things."

I hope I'm in your landscape.

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