What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me.
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that … - Blake Butler
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that …
- Blake Butler
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing… - Blake Butler
I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use to see where those thing…
I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical… - Blake Butler
I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical…
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the wor… - Blake Butler
I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the wor…
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl… - Blake Butler
When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a pl…
My love is inside me where my fat was. - Blake Butler
My love is inside me where my fat was.
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou… - Blake Butler
I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be arou…
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one… - Blake Butler
About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one…
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy. - Blake Butler
I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.
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