Date: 1949
"And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
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Date: 1992
"If he was essentially a thinking machine, then he needed to be serviced."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"If your mind works like a cash register, anything you come up with is bound to be cheap"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Only this violence could break open a world constrained by the hidden cameras of conscience and vanity."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"This lonely organ, which has appeared to be imprisoned in the skull, tormenting intellectuals throughout history,' said Jean-Paul merrily, 'may after all be a transceiver, tuning into various types of extraphysical mind, and contributing to them with its own broadcasts.'"
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)