"She laughed musically. It was like the soundtrack to fallen leaves.
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Focus is passé. In the modern world we want to feel everything all the time. There is no point in just taking a walk in the park when we can also listen to headphones, munch on a hot dog, crank up our vibrating soles to the maximum, and check out the passing carnival of humanity. Our choices shout the creed of a new world order: stimulation! Thought and ceativity have become subservient to the singular goal of saturating our sense. But I'm old school. If you are not prepared to focus on me when you are with me - conversation, touch, our momentary entwining of souls - then get out of my face and go back to your 500 channels of surround-sound life."
-Neil Strauss, The Game