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{"totalHighlights":322,"highlights":[{"asin":"B001ROAKG2","title":"Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art","highlightedText":[{"content":"The word enthusiasm is Greek for “filled with theos”—filled with God.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"631"},{"content":"drops","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1543"},{"content":"Practice","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1595"},{"content":"The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1693"}],"cover":"http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B001ROAKG2.01.TZZ.jpg"},{"asin":"B0026IUOH8","title":"Naked","highlightedText":[{"content":"Every now and then someone will offer some little bit of information that suddenly changes everything. 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It is with this hope that I teach.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1249"},{"content":"That which becomes the seed of criticism is not wisdom; it is nothing more than the seed of grumbling and dissatisfaction. It is so often the case that the more we feel we know about something, the more dissatisfied and plaintive we can feel.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1314"}],"cover":"http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B007H9RIK2.01.TZZ.jpg"},{"asin":"B00CGHRDU0","title":"Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment","highlightedText":[{"content":"Meditation is less about having a certain kind of experience than about seeing any experience clearly, richly, and honestly.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"902"},{"content":"Shoshana Cooper, who teaches meditation with her husband, David Cooper, thinks that within a few decades, Buddhist-derived meditation will be as unremarkable as Hindu-derived yoga.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"918"}],"cover":"http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00CGHRDU0.01.TZZ.jpg"},{"asin":"B003XT602M","title":"South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel (Vintage International)","highlightedText":[{"content":"Gradually I drew nearer the world, and the world drew nearer to me.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"213"},{"content":"But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"320"},{"content":"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"369"},{"content":"when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"535"},{"content":"As always, as the night wore on, the trio’s playing grew warmer, more intimate.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1026"},{"content":"I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. 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Wayne, who would have won this year’s What aBurger, standing watch in a mask as Donald Gately and I dig up my father’s head.","comment":"he didnt win because afr killed him for helping hal and co","kindleLocation":"481"},{"content":"","comment":"Hal turns 11 in june of tucks pad","kindleLocation":"710"},{"content":"‘Is Himself still having this hallucination I never speak?","comment":"","kindleLocation":"750"},{"content":"","comment":"year of tucks, age 11","kindleLocation":"751"},{"content":"","comment":"april 1","kindleLocation":"846"},{"content":"InterLace’s two hubs of manufacture and dissemination in Phoenix, Arizona U.S.A. and Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"855"},{"content":"The padded mailer is postmarked suburban Phoenix area in Arizona U.S.A., and the return-address box has only the term ‘HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!,’ with a small drawn crude face, smiling,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"913"},{"content":"","comment":"medical attache's tape","kindleLocation":"914"},{"content":"","comment":"wheelchair assassins?","kindleLocation":"921"},{"content":"American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"1300"},{"content":"","comment":"himself's death","kindleLocation":"1528"},{"content":"Dr. Avril Mondragon,","comment":"maiden name","kindleLocation":"1532"},{"content":"","comment":"year of trial sized dove bars","kindleLocation":"1545"},{"content":"","comment":"kate grompert buys from pemulis(?)","kindleLocation":"1797"},{"content":"‘Film director’s wife’d taught out at Brandeis where the victim’d done his residency.","comment":"also ETAs architectattache","kindleLocation":"2162"},{"content":"(Rodney Tine, Sr., Chief of Unspecified Services, acknowledged architect of O.N.A.N. and continental Reconfiguration, who held the ear of the White House of U.S.A., and whose stenographer had long doubled as the stenographer-cum-jeune-fille-de-Vendredi of M. DuPlessis, former asst. coordinator of the pan-Canadian Resistance,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"2176"},{"content":"Steeply’s car for all field assignments was this green sedan subsidized by a painful ad for aspirin upon its side","comment":"","kindleLocation":"2538"},{"content":"All other of our you say free choices follow from this: what is our temple. 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He never let her see it, not even the dailies. He killed himself less than ninety days later.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"5285"},{"content":"‘The Face of the Deep’ had been the title she’d suggested for Jim’s unseen last cartridge, which he’d said would be too pretentious and then used that skull-fragment out of the Hamlet graveyard scene instead,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"5465"},{"content":"","comment":"nov 5 ydau, orin","kindleLocation":"5605"},{"content":"now the Subject and I drive to her trailer park","comment":"","kindleLocation":"5612"},{"content":"","comment":"mildred bonks?","kindleLocation":"5613"},{"content":"‘Can I ask you who it was who found him? His — who found him at the oven?’ ‘Found by one Harold James Incandenza, thirteen going on really old.’","comment":"","kindleLocation":"5721"},{"content":"He stopped living on April First,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"5745"},{"content":"that he was despondent about something he was editing that turned out so bad he didn’t want it released.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"5834"},{"content":"","comment":"port washington","kindleLocation":"5955"},{"content":"","comment":"schacht","kindleLocation":"6146"},{"content":"that first night after Inflation, traditionally the fourth Monday of November,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"6196"},{"content":"Himself having eliminated his own map on 1 April of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar","comment":"","kindleLocation":"6588"},{"content":"The twirler induced in heterosexual males what U.H.I.D. later told her was termed the Actaeon Complex, which is a kind of deep phylogenic fear of transhuman beauty.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"6661"},{"content":"","comment":"steeply is at enfield on nov 8 ydau","kindleLocation":"7471"},{"content":"Year of Dairy Products From the American Heartland, which is when new resident Gately came wobbling in,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"8288"},{"content":"152","comment":"","kindleLocation":"8774"},{"content":"L’Odalisque de Ste. Thérèse, a character out of old Québecois mythology who was supposedly so inhumanly gorgeous that anyone who looked at her turned instantly into a human-sized precious gem,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"8986"},{"content":"","comment":"LOL!","kindleLocation":"9627"},{"content":"Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you’re new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it’ll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"10131"},{"content":"It starts to turn out that the vapider the AA cliché, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"10142"},{"content":"","comment":"madame psychosis has disappeared (rehab post-suicide","kindleLocation":"10213"},{"content":"It’s all the sort of thing that’s uninteresting unless you’re the one responsible, in which case it’s cholesterol-raisingly stressful and complex.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"10244"},{"content":"","comment":"tennis as religious","kindleLocation":"10280"},{"content":"Having rivers of reward without earning reward.’","comment":"","kindleLocation":"10767"},{"content":"The leader leans forward in the graceful way people who always sit can lean,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"11046"},{"content":"","comment":"ghost!","kindleLocation":"11098"},{"content":"Administrative assistants worth their health benefits are synaptically evolved to the point where they can banter, accept compliments on a Spandex-and-tulle ensemble, effortlessly deflect unauthorized info-probes, listen to something bass-intensive on personal-stereo headphones, and word-process effortlessly to the headphones’ backbeat, all simultaneously.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"11657"},{"content":"He and Hal exchanged the very slight sorts of nods people use when they like each other past all need for politeness.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"11824"},{"content":"the dentist’s office had had a weird sharp clean sweet smell about it, the olfactory equivalent of fluorescent light.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"11960"},{"content":"","comment":"haha wheelchair canadians","kindleLocation":"12491"},{"content":"the thing apparently opens with an engaging and high-quality cinematic shot of a veiled woman going through a large building’s revolving doors and catching a glimpse of someone else in the revolving doors, somebody the sight of whom makes her veil billow, before the subject’s","comment":"","kindleLocation":"12501"},{"content":"","comment":"mimickimg orin?","kindleLocation":"12573"},{"content":"","comment":"ah. like pgoat?","kindleLocation":"12575"},{"content":"It is increasingly hard to find valid art that is about stuff that is real in this way.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"13478"},{"content":"The older Mario gets, the more confused he gets about the fact that everyone at E.T.A. over the age of about Kent Blott finds stuff that’s really real uncomfortable and they get embarrassed. It’s like there’s some rule that real stuff can only get mentioned if everybody rolls their eyes or laughs in a way that isn’t happy.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"13479"},{"content":"man.","comment":"marathe? steepley noticed th bald spot earlier","kindleLocation":"13622"},{"content":"Gately can see up at what looks like a regular human female chin and makeupless lower lip under the veil’s billowing hem.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"14036"},{"content":"The sun has the attenuated autumn quality of seeming to be behind several panes of glass.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"14193"},{"content":"This was after the girl Orin had been wildly in love with and Himself had compulsively used in films had been disfigured.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"14440"},{"content":"It’s now a whole new Hal, a Hal who does not get high, or hide, a Hal who in 29 days is going to hand his own personal urine over to authority figures with a wide smile and exemplary posture and not a secretive thought in his head.","comment":"nov 1","kindleLocation":"14456"},{"content":"several balls’ sudden anomalous swerves against wind and their own vectors half convinced Stice they’d become sensitive to his inner will, at crucial times.","comment":"JOI?","kindleLocation":"14505"},{"content":"","comment":"games in the entertainment?","kindleLocation":"15004"},{"content":"Krause never so much walking as making an infinite series of grand entrances into pocket after pocket of space, a","comment":"","kindleLocation":"15583"},{"content":"the lively arts of the millennial U.S.A. treat anhedonia and internal emptiness as hip and cool. It’s maybe the vestiges of the Romantic glorification of Weltschmerz, which means world-weariness or hip ennui.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"15811"},{"content":"","comment":"they found it?","kindleLocation":"16419"},{"content":"The A.F.R. were interested only in dealing the sort of testicular frappe to the underbelly of U.S.A. self-interests that would render Canada itself unwilling to face the U.S.A. retaliation for this","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16439"},{"content":"— if A.F.R. could secure, copy, and disseminate the Entertainment, Québec would be not so much allowed as required by Ottawa to secede,","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16440"},{"content":"the infiltration of that relative of the auteur felt most strongly (according to Marathe) to have knowledge or possession of a duplicable copy. There was reason to think M. DuPlessis had received his original copies from this relative, an athlete.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16447"},{"content":"","comment":"past few chapters have been on this day","kindleLocation":"16457"},{"content":"she can see her face, convexly distorted and ravaged by years of cocaine and not caring, her face all bug-eyes and sunken cheeks, lampblack-smudges beneath the pop-eyes;","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16475"},{"content":"","comment":"true or self-image in the dream?","kindleLocation":"16476"},{"content":"a third cartridge emblazed with the embossed smile and letters disclaiming need of happy pursuit, and, after some regretful losses, they had secured and verified it, the samizdat cartridge of Entertainment burglared from the death of DuPlessis.","comment":"from gately to antitoi","kindleLocation":"16484"},{"content":"the found copy was Read-Only.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16502"},{"content":"","comment":"lookimg for joelle","kindleLocation":"16530"},{"content":"","comment":"oh shit.  on thehunt for the master copy... for joelle?","kindleLocation":"16615"},{"content":"","comment":"marathe wearing the veil. awesome","kindleLocation":"16636"},{"content":"She’d barely thought consciously of any Incandenzas for four years before Don Gately, who for some reason kept bringing them bubbling up to mind.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16768"},{"content":"","comment":"whats the significance? hal cant form connections either","kindleLocation":"16780"},{"content":"Orin’s basic childhood memory of Jim had been of an expressionless stare from a great height.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16784"},{"content":"Never trust a man on the subject of his own parents.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16803"},{"content":"the work of a brilliant optician and technician who was an amateur at any kind of real communication. Technically gorgeous, the Work, with lighting and angles planned out to the frame. But oddly hollow, empty, no sense of dramatic towardness","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16840"},{"content":"","comment":"joelle on himself's work","kindleLocation":"16842"},{"content":"But even in the early Work — flashes of something.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"16854"},{"content":"The M v. 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Any conversation or interchange is better than none at all, to trust him on this, that the worst kind of gut-wrenching intergenerational interface is better than withdrawal or hiddenness on either side.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"19149"},{"content":"","comment":"randy lenz","kindleLocation":"19273"},{"content":"","comment":"poor tony krause","kindleLocation":"19275"},{"content":"in this dream, Mrs. Waite, who is Joelle, is Death. As in the figure of Death, Death incarnate. Nobody comes right out and says so; it’s just understood: Gately’s sitting here in this depressing kitchen interfacing with Death. Death is explaining that Death happens over and over, you have many lives, and at the end of each one (meaning life) is a woman who kills you and releases you into the next life.","comment":"","kindleLocation":"19380"},{"content":"","comment":"he's dreaming the story of the entertainment! 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