Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul.As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness.The enduring is something which must be accounted for.A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see. I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification.I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself.This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me only the haters seem alive. Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.Is it possible that a theory of man is nothing more nor less than a theory of the speaking creatures? The Moviegoer (1961) Further sourcing to chapters here and in further sections would be helpful. Quotes Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature? 1.5 Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983).

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