“You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.” PeoplePersonsEffortBrainAliveConnectedSkulls Author:Tao Lin
“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.” EndsMovingLife IsFearSpaceAliveMovementAll TimeTime And SpaceNo FearFear Of Death Author:Tao Lin
“There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at.” WayFeelsPersonsLongFeelingsFeltMistakeAliveLonelinessComfortableCertaintyEnjoymentNeglectNothingnessWorthlessMeaninglessness Author:Tao Lin
“Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it.” PeopleIfsMadeIdeasMatterEnoughWaterAnimalAliveModelsMonstersGoing AwayGood EnoughHoaxesLoch Ness Monster Author:Tao Lin
