In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with.
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Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.
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On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Richard PowersThe morning was glorious, one of those crystalline, dry, blue, fall days when the temperature hovers right at anticipation.
Richard PowersWhat was acrophobia anyway, if not the half-acknowledged desire to jump?
Richard PowersThe web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
Richard PowersSpeech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the difference between thing and process, except as they functioned in clauses. Her predications were all shotgun weddings. Her ideas were as decorative as half-timber beams that bore no building load.
She balked at metaphor. I felt the annoyance of her weighted vectors as they readjusted themselves, trying to accommodate my latest caprice. You're hungry enough to eat a horse. A word from a friend ties your stomach in knots. Embarrassment shrinks you, amazement strikes you dead. Wasn't the miracle enough? Why do humans need to say everything in speech's stockhouse except what they mean?
Tag: metaphor the-stuff-of-thought
For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am?
Richard PowersMaybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.
Richard PowersSynapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.
Richard PowersTag: hebbian-theory neural-plasticity
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