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Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, Give me masturbation or give me death. Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend;...

Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, Give me masturbation or give me death. Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend;...

Mark Twain

Tags: caesar, cetewayo, homer, iliad, masturbation, michelangelo, onanism, queen elizabeth, robinson crusoe, sodomy

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very end...

Jonathan Franzen

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very end...

Jonathan Franzen

Tags: boredom, cyber, cyberworld, david foster wallace, depression, dissatisfaction, distractions, emptiness, empty, endlessness