The oppressors' specific methods and identities continue to mystify Doc to some degree...but he divines their overarching goal: to close the frontiers of consciousness forever by rendering life in the shadows impossible and opening the soul itself to view, or at least criminalizing its excursions into deeply subjective, hidden realms. The age of the private eyes is over, that is, and with it the age of privacy itself. And what's left? The sleepless, all-seeing, unblinking public eye."
Walter Kirn, reviewing Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
New York Times Book Review 8/23/2009
Hurting (with update)
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Injuries are part of sports, they always say. But do injuries have to be
such a large part?
In professional basketball, for instance. In the past seas...
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