Snippets from that novel could not be saved and slapped here lest something tragic happens like losing the piece of paper, but such is not the case for a certain memoir!
Mixed: My Life in Black and White, by Angela Nissel
In the "sane" world, people hold back their psychotic parts. "Sane" people give you little happy bits of themselves, then months down the line when they know you're invested in their well-being/in love/committed to being their best friend, they dump their huge, crazy psychotic backstories on you, leaving you no choice but to help carry them. Sometimes, when their load gets really heavy, you think in the back of your mind, "I wish I'd known this s**t earlier," but you keep trudging along with them because that's what a good friend/wife/worker does...Wouldn't life be easier if we all had to lay our [cards] on the table in the first conversation and say, Take me or leave me? We can't because we're all competing: for a job, for a man...
Disclaimer: I'm not going nuts. I just happen to think that bit is win.
Edit 1/11/08
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We cherish and honor many aspects of life in our culture – philosophy, religion, art, music, literature, and so on. These can all be thought of as possible expressions of our search for an answer to the question, “What is our place in the universe?” Cosmology is concerned with the answer to an even more basic question, “What is the universe?” Today, and throughout history, our attempts to answer the first question have been influenced by our perception of the answer to the second question.
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But in science…one demands of a model that it lead to deeper truth. The reason the heliocentric model of the solar system is better than the geocentric model isn’t that the calculations are easier or more accurate but that it allows the reconnection of physics with astronomy. It is the model of Copernicus, modified by Kepler, which Newton used to explain the motions of the Moon and the planets on the basis of physical law. It is this model that is encompassed by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The heliocentric model is the fertile one. The Ptolemaic model and the Tychonic model are worse than wrong; they are barren.
Man, I do not like that I need to put so much filler text for the cool phrase to make sense. I swear it's not an astromony textbook
