“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.” PeopleWholeFeelingsAgeStarsTakenAirEffectsBuildingHollywoodTownsCrowdsTricksGhostFakeSunsetDisappointedArtificialPatheticTornadoesBoulevardObsolescenceSumptuousGhost Town Book:Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard
“We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.” IfsYearsIdeasHardFeelingsMightGuyNaturalEvolutionSightGhostSensitiveSuspectsBusPredatorUneasyPerfectly NaturalBus StopsUneasy Feelings Author:Seth Shostak
“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.” GivingTryingBelieveFeelingsSpaceExistenceEatingWeightGhostBeing YourselfApologizingHomelessBellyNever QuitErase Author:Geneen Roth
“My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.” IfsSelfFeelingsSweetWindSpringMurderBlameGuiltEndureRoundsGhostChosenNecksRopeObligedImposingHumiliatingDowntroddenGuilt Trip Author:Mordecai Richler
“I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.” ThinkingHas BeensFeelingsSeeingFollowingGhostVague Author:Conor Oberst
“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?” HumansStoriesFeelingsPleasureStrangeInvolvedAccountsGhostOur LoveCravingGhost Stories Book:Collected essays Source: Collected essays