“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (via fuckitbukowskiwasright)
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mom:
you realize normal people don't have such strong feelings about the oxford comma
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me:
THE OXFORD COMMA IS IMPORTANT
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mom:
you realize this makes you a nerd
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me:
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mom:
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me:
i had a party with the strippers, george bush and barack obama
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me:
i had a party with the strippers, george bush, and barack obama
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me:
without the comma, you are implying that george bush and barack obama are strippers
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mom:
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me:
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mom:
this isn't normal
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