Author: Alaya Dawn Johnson

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• David Lenson (1)
  • IN: Love is the Drug (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is said that once the back of a fine watch is opened for repair or examination it can never again run in the same way, for a fleck of dust will always lodge invisibly in the works and provide a stress, albeit incalculably small, to the functioning of the mechanism. So too when a drug opens the clockworks of consciousness for examination, that awareness thereafter becomes ever so slightly more self-aware. Self-consciousness becomes a slightly greater part of consciousness. And so the question finally becomes: how intimately do we want or need to know ourselves?
    FROM: On Drugs, (1995), Book, US