THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.