No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.
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Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Kesey reflects on the nature of time and existence, suggesting a moment of stillness where everything converges.
This quote by Ken Kesey evokes a profound meditation on the experience of time in a state of anesthetization where the usual passage of time is altered, creating a surreal moment where all experiences and events seem to be present simultaneously. It captures the tension between the relentless forward movement of time and the stillness of perception, inviting us to consider how we occupy our moments and the weight of existence in those fleeting fragments.
Themes
TimeExistenceStillnessPerceptionMoment
In practice
Example use cases
In a lecture on existentialism, one might refer to this quote to illustrate the concept of time perception.
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