Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.
Vijay SeshadriYou probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.
Vijay SeshadriAll ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.
Vijay SeshadriThese new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.
Vijay Seshadri