Source: Postcards from the Edge
As Quoted in Rati's personal diaries https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7709871.Rati_Tsiteladze
Spacetime Tsunami http://www.deoxy.org/t_sunami.htm, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.
Variant: I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
Context: I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, 'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels. With some of the tryptamine hallucinogens, you see into possibilities where questions like, 'are you alive?' 'are you dead?' 'are you you?' seem to have been transcended. I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
“The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 7
As quoted in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1923) by Wilmer Cave France Wright, p. 91
General sources
“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Quote of Naum Gabo, 1950; as cited in: Eidos: a journal of painting, sculpture and design. Nr.1, p. 31
1936 - 1977
If Japan Can...Why Can't We? (1980)
