*image by Ben Harubin

 

All news is bad news because it is from the past.
(Doesn't that give anyone a hint?)

A hobby
can never be a real hobby
unless it's just a hobby.

Once the tricks are exposed and the methods explained and a man begins to See,
the aim of This Thing is no longer seen as the attempt to make a quickened person
from a sleeping blob, but as an enterprise to produce an extended process from a
limited system.

Since all maps are nonliving sketches, the cartographer must be available to furnish
the necessary breath-of-meaning, or else the maps become but additional markers in
the graveyard of the lost.

The quicker and more explanatory is a map, the less is its attraction.
Little, fragmented, piecemeal maps, apparently pointing to particular
"problem areas" are always the most welcome.

A more alert person would not have to carry about worry beads to placate
nervous movement; he knows where a better version lies in the skull.