The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Monday, January 3, 2011

Chapter 11: Stalking Part III

Rather, we know now for sure that there is no knowing. ... physicists are saying that they cannot study nature per se, but only their own investigation of nature.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dillard's response to Werner Heisenberg's Principle of Indeterminacy: "you cannot know both a particle's velocity and position." I've been looking for this idea for some time, trying to recall whose it was, for I only remembered what he said. (It's funny how one day a name came to me and that was Bohr.) But Heisenberg--when he was only twenty-six! 
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