I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.
Scarlett ThomasI think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
Scarlett ThomasHomeopaths argue that water has a memory.
Scarlett ThomasTags: water memory homeopathy
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
Scarlett ThomasTags: animals freedom danger cages
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 bibliorg.
Scarlett ThomasTags: books cybernetics ideas thoughts images
Not all events are stories.
Scarlett ThomasIf something wants to be a story, it will be.
Scarlett ThomasTags: story
People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
Scarlett ThomasIn real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
Scarlett ThomasSometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.
Scarlett ThomasTags: trust
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