I think that somewhere along the way I internalized an idea that the goal was to sand off all the strangeness until you become a surface that lots of people can project onto. And what I found is that the more I did that, the more I disappeared, and the more I leaned into specificity and strangeness, the more people seemed to connect.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
Franz Kafka — Letter to Oskar Pollak
Listening feels a little like watching a river move through a cluster of rocks, breaking apart for a moment and then merging. But the rendition that really gets me, that I keep playing again and again, is a slowed version of Landis' original—about 32 minutes, or five times the initial length. To go back to that river, it's like the water is half-frozen now, moving between the chutes of rock with the speed of a slurry.
Grayson Currin
The most common form of despair is not being who you are. And yet the self is not a fixed thing to be discovered, but a possibility to be created — which is perhaps why so many prefer the despair.
Søren Kierkegaard — The Sickness Unto Death