Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.
Douglas CouplandFlorida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
Douglas CouplandVenice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
Douglas CouplandEverybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.
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