a scanner darkly

"somewhere, at the deepest level possible, the mechanism, the construction of things, fell apart, and up from what remained swam the need to do all the various sort of unclear wrongs the wisest choice has made us act out. it must have started thousands of years ago. by now, it's infiltrated into the nature of everything. and, she thought, into every one of us. we can't turn around or open our mouth and speak, decide at all, without doing it. i don't even care how it got started, when or why. she thought, i just hope it'll end some time. like tony amsterdam; i just hope the shower of brightly colored sparks will return, and this time we'll all see it. the narrow doorway where there's peace on the far side. a statue, the sea, and what looks like moonlight. and nothing stirring, nothing to break the calm."
- philip k. dick

2004-07-19 | 11:47 a.m.
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