“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.” FirstsDifferentEndsStoriesLastsHundredParagraphDifferent Directions Book:Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson Source: Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson
“The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.” KnowsWorldMayEndsMomentsReadingTeachDramaFinishedDoctrineCurtainsParagraph Book:Joyful Christian Source: Joyful Christian
“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.” WorldEndsPhilosophyFactsRealityPoliticalPassionIntellectualUltimateErrorsConvictionDuesGenuineMeaninglessEroticParagraphExcludedIdentifyingUltimate Reality Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals