Because is not the characteristic of . . . what is called, using a very feeble word, “wisdom” in relation to philosophy precisely to dissolve the event?

—FRANÇOIS JULLIEN, The Silent Transformations, trans. Krzysztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson

Tell me I’m exceptional I promise to exploit you.

—COURTNEY BARNETT, “Pedestrian at Best,” Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.