Thu 10
“With his high-resolution, hyperreal imagination, and his frequent inability to cope with real events, Dank took for granted, at the prospect of a movie or a concert or a party, that he’d enjoy it more, and remember it more vividly, if, instead of actually enduring the experience, he stayed home sipping coffee from his favorite mug (not the sense-of-wonder mug but the one with the Nietzsche quotation: I WANT HOBGOBLINS AROUND ME, FOR I AM COURAGEOUS), and imagined the outing in question.
— The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank by Christopher Miller