People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Scarlett Thomas
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  1. ...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

  2. But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

  3. But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

  4. Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book.. .. an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a...

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