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  1. Tim Kreider _ We Learn Nothing: Essays and

    The problem is, we only get one chance at this, with no do-overs. Life is an unrepeatable experiment with no control. In his novel about marriage, Light Years, James Salter writes: "For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the pardox."1 A
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  2. Tim Kreider _ We Learn Nothing

    You'd think that it would make them all the more credible to be free of any obvious agenda or emotional bias, motivated only by objective logic. But there's something off-putting about these hyperrational types; they're immune to any appeals to common sense or humor, the for fuck's sake defense. {...} As Kim Stanley Robinson writes, "An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness".
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