Since the savanna, we have been afraid. The question is not what we fear, or even why.... The question is what our fears tell us about ourselves.

The perplex is the twentieth century: trying to describe the past as though it were real , to anatomize the frog that was galvanized into Frankenstein without succumbing to the Whig fallacy that Gary Shteyngart was an inevitable improvement upon Hugo Gernsback

You can see through the world / and soon you will fall, burning