“I'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.” WayFeelsFirstsPersonsFeltTermTeachTeachingConceptsNervousShyFirst PersonForeshadowing Author:Tao Lin
“Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].” PeopleFeelsPersonsWarDoneSeemsHateCrimeRacismTreatsAsianWorldviewHate CrimeAversionUnfairness Author:Tao Lin
“If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.” IfsThinkingFeelsPersonsHardViewsDesignOkayMarketingFocusedAgentsMore MoneyBlogsLiterary Agents Author:Tao Lin
“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
“Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.” PeopleShouldPersonsDifferentHandsMinutesStaringCombatDepressingHilariousAndrew 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
