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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Epigraph
  4. Memnoir
  5. Sources

CURIOSITY AND THE CLAIM TO HAPPINESS

Studies have shown that the brain prefers unpredictable pleasures.

PRESENT TENSE

it’s said that it happens even in nature e.g. during the childhood the mother might have (had) a taste for film noir and take(n) the child along

my machine is hooked up to my machin things inaccessible to the precise methods of e.g. a Brazilian bookmobile being hijacked in a dark underground garage fiction is precisely what they now call non-fiction too get a bit too presonal i.e. Eurydice my dark darling don’t worry I can bear your not looking at me she cri(ed) out i.e. hoping it (was) true

(now) (here) together in the mix of the modern metropolis Rio Vienna Paris Tokyo Moscow Hong Kong Lagos New York Bombay London Mumbai he and she both feel close to the idealized neuron in the book

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