There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate.
I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of m… - Victor Pelevin
I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of m…
- Victor Pelevin
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly conc… - Victor Pelevin
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly conc…
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, n… - Victor Pelevin
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is that as time passes by, n…
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck d… - Victor Pelevin
Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck d…
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the tr… - Victor Pelevin
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the tr…
IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already. - Victor Pelevin
IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.
How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the r… - Victor Pelevin
How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the r…
The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view. - Victor Pelevin
The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view.
When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is p… - Victor Pelevin
When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is p…
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