The suburbs.
How deeply we are lost! So deep that we do not know we are lost. How derelict we are! So great that we do not know our dereliction.– – – – – – – –
In an infinite universe, there will be a faraway planet with a suburb just like this one. And there will be you and I talking, looking up at the stars.
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The madness of the suburbs: who knows it but you?
Your madness: that you know the madness of the suburbs.
These are excerpts from the blog, Nietzsche and the Burbs, a compilation of notes for a novel-in-progress by Lars Iyer (author of Wittgenstein Jr., for which there was also a blog, as well as a trio of academic novels).
