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brain to brain

HELLO.

Sorry for the runaround. I just wanted to make sure we could talk in private, you and me. Brain to brain, if that’s OK. It’s your brain that’s reading this right now on your computer or your phone, or bless you, maybe in print, feeling the coarse weight of the paper stock under your finge…

—p.31 n+1 Issue 41: Snake Oil China Brain (29) by Andrea Long Chu
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22 million millionaires in the United States alone

Billionaires are also set apart by the fact that an average person cannot reasonably aspire to be one. There are an estimated 22 million millionaires in the United States alone, more than 8 percent of the adult population. Becoming a millionaire is simple, if unimaginable for many: graduate from co…

—p.5 Billionaire Follies (3) by n+1
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this ordinary, everyday activity

[...] She ran into a girl who said someone had offered to pay her rent for a year. He wanted to take a photograph of this view as seen from the interior of an apartment in which someone was living in a completely natural way. All she had to do was move in and furnish it the way she would naturally.…

—p.179 Some Trick: Thirteen Stories Plantinga (175) by Helen DeWitt
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known propensity to hit things other than drums

Then the inconceivable had happened which is that Thom Yorke sent an e-mail inviting them to do a gig. Keith said they should just do it, fuck the fucking contract but Darren and Stewart

So then Keith was very quiet.

Never a good sign.

Given Keith’s known propensity to hit things other tha…

—p.142 Stolen Luck (141) by Helen DeWitt
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double octaves in the bass melted into the air

One day after walking in the country I came back & walked down her street — I heard the opening bars of Chopin’s fourth Ballade in F minor. More than ever was I conscious that I had wronged her — I felt that I must apologize — in agony I walked up and down outside the door, waiting for her to finis…

—p.139 The French Style of Mlle Matsumoto (131) by Helen DeWitt