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“...a spacecraft is passing and some human is up there hefting a lift-bar with her legs, willing her muscles not to give in to the seduction of weightlessness, nor her bones to birdness. Else that poor spacefarer will be in all kinds of trouble when she lands back on earth where legs, once more, are very much a thing. Without that hefting and sweating and pressing she would survive the blazing heat and tumble of her re-entry only to be pulled from her capsule and fold like a paper crane.” SpaceFateMen And WomenTime TravelLove Hate Book:Orbital Source: Orbital
“If the mind is a cacophony, the subconscious is silent theatre.” MindSubsconscious Book:The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping Source: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“The mind is a prison. And when we write the noise is distilled and alchemised, and the self can find a way out, which I think is what love is – the escape of the self from the self.” WritingMind Book:The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping Source: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“Reason is a thing that proves only itself. If you use reason to work out what is valid, you’ll find that the only valid things are those you can reach by reason. These things we call ‘reasonable’. So what? If you use God as the measure of what is valid, you’ll find that the only valid things are those you can reach by God. These things we call ‘godly’. This tells you nothing more about things in themselves, only about your process of arriving at them.” ReasonReligionCritical Thinking Book:The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping Source: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“The thoughts you have in orbit are so grandiose and old. Think a new one, a completely fresh unthought one. But there are no new thoughts. They're just old thoughts born into new moments- and in these moments is the thought: without the earth we are all finished.” PhilosophyEarthSpaceEnvironmentThoughtAstronauts Book:Orbital Source: Orbital
“Time is the thing that breaks apart life from death, eases apart their embrace. Time, not life, is what we live. Time, not life, is what runs out. Time pushes death over there, where we can see it, and then offers itself as finite protection.” LifeDeathTime Book:The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping Source: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
“The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now.” Time Book:Orbital Source: Orbital