Epigraph for Cormac McCarthy —
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"When I got to high school the first place I went was to the library. It was just a small room with a desk and maybe a thousand books. Maybe not that. But among them was a volume of Berkeley. I dont know what it was doing there. Probably because Berkeley was a bishop. Well. Almost certainly because Berkeley was a bishop. But I sat in the floor and I read A New Theory of Vision. And it changed my life. I understood for the first time that the visual world was inside your head. All the world, in fact. I didnt buy into his theological speculations but the physiology was beyond argument. I sat there for a long time. Just letting it soak in."
— McCarthy, Cormac. Stella Maris (p. 39). |
From this journal on April 18, 2023 —
" NY Times columnist's advice to the recent Harvard donor of $300 million —
'At least make them build you some weird pharaonic monument.' "
Illustration suggested by my own high-school library reading many years ago —
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"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime