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As it often did when I thought about chicken wings and entropy, my mind turned to Emerson. "Life is ...

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The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human ...

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The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future in...

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Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Fami...

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We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober...

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I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'...

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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and ...

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviol...

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Jorge Luis BorgesEl jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched,...

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No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of ever...

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Philip K. DickGalactic Pot-Healer

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin...

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Philip K. DickThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trail...

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One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glo...

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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You ar...

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