I've started this book several times only to get no further than 50 pages or so. It's funny too because each succeeding time, I don't recall the story I'd read multiple times before. And now, when I have the least amount of time for leisure reading, I am soaking it in. I still have no money to buy a bike....but the road trip is happening next summer, come rain or shine. Broke ass poor and hungry, I want the humid breezes and beat-up concrete beneath some tires & tents.
"They are just looking at me so I continue: "Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, of mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention...
...The world has no existence whatsoever outside the human imagination. It's all a ghost, and in antiquity was so recognized as a ghost, the whole blessed world we live in. It's run by ghosts. We see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on....
Isaac Newton is a very good ghost. One of the best. Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.""
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