December 2010
48 posts
Zadie Smith on The Social Network (the movie) and... →
youmightfindyourself:
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears. It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated...
There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture in the lonely shore,...
– Lord Byron Childe Harold (via sixohthree)