Hopefully Mark’s honour was in the kitchen or some other room, or maybe taking a shower in the bathroom.

Shame is the emotion we experience when the lack of transcendence that we hide in ourselves is uncovered.

I could’ve really used sleeping in on Sunday morning, but the sense of duty to keep my word and go to church won out in the end.

“You can feel whatever way you want about it, but the fact is, sexuality is what potentiates the species.”

Jamie could never be happy to subtract the infinity of his being to a mere stump of a “well-adjusted” citizen.

On the other side of the room, the Four were slowly getting separated from each other.

Is it the Cruel Fate that got me in this place, or was it the Good Lord?

The false prophet knows the truth of his flock’s despair and the lie of their mistaken pursuit – and he embraces the lie.

Theo and him hang out all the time, and it’s only because they are both equally broke.

In reaction to the continuous humiliation that is poverty, the underprivileged enter a life of self-destructive sadomasochism.

Theo scanned the faces of his friends. Lennon’s was filled with admiration, Paulie was smiling and shaking his head. Nikki, whom he barely knew, didn’t seem to care much, while Laura assumed a shy posture, looking down at her feet while slurping at the straw of her cocktail, processing.

Instead of giving a specific objective as an answer to the question of what humans desire, mimetic theory stops at the question and proclaims: “Humans are creatures that desire.”

Theo was beginning to feel tense. It was going to be night where his suburban world clashes with whatever he got himself into, and he needed to take the edge off to handle it.

In mimetic theory, as in a stock bubble, the intrinsic worth of an object of desire becomes less relevant the more rivals compete over it.

They had a clear view of the breathtaking Yukon 1 reactor, disgorging a titanic white plume into the purple sub-polar twilight. Behind the watery volcano they saw already the risen full Moon, its donut shape symbolizing human progress.

“They would otherwise fry food with that thing called butter, as though they were destitute.”

Theo needs to impress some people, especially for the weekend, when he’s going to cottage country.

Existentialist interpretation sees ancient myths as expressions of the free human imagination, a sort of a creative “screw you” to a dead universe.

Once the weight-supporting bricks and mortar are raised, and the roof, and the indoor space is made fit for habitation, the owners often give up on the luxurious and even snobbish pursuit of covering the exterior walls with merely cosmetic layers of plaster.

Stewart and Clive were put into collaboration because they both achieved the highest score – both in the 99th percentile – for short fingers, a trait critical for handling, testing and tying of bowties.