The Germans have a fondness for faery-tales, or Märchen as they call them, that is strangely at odds with their orderly dispositions.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
November 2021 Archiv
Märchentlich.
Londsterdam.
You’ve spent time in Amsterdam, which may give you some idea of what London is like, except that London is not nearly as well organized.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Mind-Body.
Bob had not noticed the skeleton before, and its sudden inclusion in the conversation made him uneasy. “I beg your pardon, sir, ‘twas disgraceful—” “Oh, stop!” Eliza hissed, “he is a Philosopher, he cares not.” “Descartes used to come up here when I was a young man, and sit at that very table, and drink too much and discourse of the Mind-Body Problem,” Huygens mused. “Problem? What’s the problem? I don’t see any problem,” Bob muttered parenthetically, until Eliza crowded back against him and planted a heel on his instep. “So Eliza’s attempt to clarify your mental processes by purging you of imbalancing humours could not have been carried out in a more appropriate location,” Huygens continued.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
When the spectacle swallows the true story.
Kissing in the rain
Stargazing once again
Old clichés still remain but i want my own endings
No false solutions
No safe illusions
Come along with me, into a real dream
Right here, right now.
Everything is nicer on location.