"Life gradually became less a search for meaning than a process of optimization: how to put this sentence the best way in the fewest words, how to choose the right things to buy at the supermarket and pay for them in the fastest-moving line, what to do and ingest in order to keep from getting sick or depressed..."
The essential difference between brahmacharya and grihastashram. Taken, a little out of context and beyond all consequences, from In The World, by Elif Batuman, in a recent New Yorker.
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Do you have a post coming on why you moved from Moon Balls to Limca Cuts?
@ Vishnu...yes. The simple answer is that I was getting bored with Moon Balls after three-ish years. But I need to explain what Limca Cuts are.
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