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“In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.”

“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.”

Self Universe Force Awareness Conscious Self Awareness Details Meant To Be Minors Mindless

Book:Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World

Source: Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World

“Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.”

Self Conscious Details Awake Self Conscious

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.”

Stills Problem Seems Might Faces Week Information Safe Computer Conscious Details Locals Branches Hacked

Author:Geoff Capes

“A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Littles Made Self Process Judging Conscious Details Self Conscious

Author:St. Lucia

“I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.”

Humans Development Conscious Details Portions Inability Human Knowledge

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin