Is it some Sama Karaki I see ? ^^

Edit : joking

 

YES - and here's a little trivia.

When you read a book at night, an educated guess tells me that 99% of the time the light is coming from around you or behind you. I left the 1% for people who are fine with having it shine directly at their eyes.

When you read a book on a computer, a phone or pad the light is shining straight into your eyes, day or night.
I have no idea what doctors say about perpetually reading from these versus a book. Maybe there is no difference to your eyes, I wouldn't know but I still enjoy reading print.

 

Possibly this one by Nobuyoshi Araki?

 

Might not apply to you at all of course, but: obsessive collecting is an addiction to immediate gratification. Actual reading (ie. doing something with those collectibles), making music, research, learning, programming [..] is all slow-pay off stuff. An unfortunate side effect of excessive exposure to "the internet" (dopamine vs serotonin). Does happen to older individuals more frequently/severely. Sometimes you have to pinch yourself, detox and make yourself do the stuff you used to like doing, even if right at this moment it doesn't feel like those things could be fun again.

 

Indeed lol

 

It's true that a great opened can rope you in, like the opener for Camus' "The Stranger".

Like... what? That's insanely great. Why is this person more concerned about "when" than the actual fact of his mother's passing?

One of my favourite openers is from "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie, it's just two guys falling from a great height over the English Channel, and there's somebody watching and narrating. And it's not really explaining who's telling the story here, there's a repeated "Who am I?"-line and allusions who that might be. Not necessarily a great book in my opinion, but the writing style is brilliant and the first few pages feels like being dropped from the sky.

 

Haven't read it, however sounds a lot like he was reading/watching Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams before he wrote that.

The sperm whale and a bowl of petunias falling to earth scene.

 

We are the captains of our own souls. No one or nothing disallows us anything aside from our own unwillingness to act.

Yes, I know this was clearly in jest/tongue in cheek, but even saying things like this to ourselves over time does immense damage.

Salutations

 

I only read girls.

 

'Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no, not again." Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.'

Love me some DNA.