“But there’s another reason that these new media tell stories in different ways from their old media predecessors: They’re telling different stories. TV sitcoms, novels, feature films, and other traditional forms are cages as well as frames. The reason that every sitcom lasts 22 minutes is that no one tries to make sitcoms about stories [...]
“Which was more likely to happen first: the spontaneously generated idea of an afterlife in which the disembodied soul, liberated from the restrictions of time and space, experiences eternal bliss, or the accidental discovery of hallucinogenic plants that give a sense of euphoria, dislocate the center of consciousness, and distort time and space, making them [...]
“She leaned over and kissed his cheek. Every hair on his body stood at attention and he felt sweupt into the warm wind that blasted him when she got out of the car. He was lying on the horizon — his body was the mounain and his hair was the Santa Anas and his eyes [...]