Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
mind-blowing magic done
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
caterpillars contemplating
We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.
thoughtful race
The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
dropping-out psychedelic dropping
We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
pipeline neurosis absence
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.
anarchy realizing tendencies
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.
imagination dimensions information
The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
invasion alarms ufo
We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
enlightenment culture barriers
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
digital furniture stuff
No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.
together-again cuckoos cuckoo-clocks
To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
snakes truth-is bunch
We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
welcome social situation
[...] thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
mystery caught enigma
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle