Stray Notes

1. There’s only one way to perform Shakespeare’s plays; there’s only one way to get those colossal structures of thought airborne: with speed and inwardness. With the violence that comes with thinking aloud.
2. You have to be very careful when you speak to human beings because the person who is standing in front of you might have something divine in them.
3. The mathematics of physics turns out to be grounded on uncertainties; on probability and chance. Doing math like that is like picking up a shell on a beach; it’s an ocean inside of nothing.

“Foaming waves around a rock formation, beneath a cloudy sky at Le Gouffre” by Aurélien - Designatic on Unsplash

4. How am I supposed to reason with a lunatic? By reasoning the way a lunatic would.

5. Internet irony strikes me as shallow. Shakespearean irony strikes me as deep.

6. Roberto Bolano: “When I write the only thing that interests me is the writing itself; that is, the form, the rhythm, the plot. ”

7. Literature is a wandering spirit, looking for a host.

“Woman walks through cold desert foliage on a foggy day in Verona” by Alessio Lin on Unsplash

8. We don’t understand Shakespeare because we don’t understand ourselves.

9. The intersection of physics and philosophy: the meaning of grief is the meaning of the Time.

10. Language is not a net, language is a harness for energy.

11. Poetry is the bridle, philosophy the stirrups. The horse is literature.