Nicotine swamps the brain with dopamine causing a short burst of satisfaction, which is distorted to look like relaxation
It all seemed kind of historic. In the locker room at halftime, he noticed something hed never seen before
His chiaroscuro is already a critique of pure reason, he wrote in When I Was Old. In Rembrandts paintings, he noted, man no longer has definite outlines. So it is with Simenon: reason asserts its power, then resigns its place
I wonder too if the surfeit of technology in our lives, the increasing collapse between the virtual and the real and the flourishing of all kinds of simulacra vegan meat, alcohol-free wine and beer, decaffeinated coffee and, yes, the electronic cigarette is kindling a longing for pre-digital experience, for the unmediated and visceral