# The Passenger  ## Metadata - Author: [[Cormac McCarthy]] - Full Title: The Passenger - Category: #books - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: In "The Passenger" by Cormac McCarthy, a character wakes up in her grandmother's house and finds others by her bed. The story follows another character as he navigates memories and emotions in a stormy setting. He struggles with feelings of loss and reflection while dealing with his surroundings. ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > As in the Chinese curse? > Something like that I suppose. The reason for point particles is that if you stick something ugly in there—such as physical reality—the equations dont work. A point devoid of physical being leaves you with location. And a location without reference to some other location cant be expressed. Some of the difficulty with quantum mechanics has to reside in the problem of coming to terms with the simple fact that there is no such thing as information in and of itself independent of the apparatus necessary to its perception. There were no starry skies prior to the first sentient and ocular being to behold them. Before that all was blackness and silence. > And yet it moved. > And yet. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jhqb4e8hr6tvjk1h64ms8fwg)) > Feynman is a bright guy but I think that’s a somewhat questionable thing to say. Should science by some miracle forge on into the future it will uncover not only new laws of nature but new natures to have laws about. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jj18ebbrbschd21ana13zbts)) - Tags: [[generating philosophy paper]] ## New highlights added February 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM > Your family’s been calling about you. Red didnt know what to tell them. Whether you were alive or not. For instance. > He wouldnt come out though, would he? > He said the last time he went looking for you it was somewhere in California and you got him drunk and got him in a fight and got him in jail and when he finally got home six days later he was missing two teeth and had the clap. > You tell him when you see him that I said he’s just a big dripping pussy. > I’ll be sure to tell him. > You know what he told me one time? > No. What did he tell you one time? > He said he seen a dude in India drink a glass of milk with his dick. Do you believe that? > Jesus. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jkgy1j8w856y9fvana5hzfst)) # The Passenger  ## Metadata - Author: [[Cormac McCarthy]] - Full Title: The Passenger - Category: #books - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: In "The Passenger" by Cormac McCarthy, a character wakes up in her grandmother's house and finds others by her bed. The story follows another character as he navigates memories and emotions in a stormy setting. He struggles with feelings of loss and reflection while dealing with his surroundings. ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > *The newborn are probably not that quick to ascribe reality to the visual. And ascribing reality is pretty much what they’re being called upon to do.* > *What do they think the visual is?* > *They dont know. The womb is as black as it gets. I think when they close their eyes they might even imagine they’ve gone back. Or they hope. They need the respite. I’m sorry. I’m just thinking out loud.* > *I do that all the time.* > *But you think that they just dont want to be here.* > *I think after a while they want to hold someone responsible. It’s what you learn when you learn about the world. Of course things can simply happen on their own. It’s just that it’s unusual.* > *You think we’re disposed to look for someone to blame when things dont go well.* ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnnkzyj18xjm20hbg1b9c0kh)) ## New highlights added March 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM > If you’d never been anyplace before and you didnt know where it was that you were going or why it was that you were going there then how excited would you be about going? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnprkqhxswvrzr8aa2109db5)) > Babies early on come to believe that all the things that are happening to them are the work of others otherwise what are the others there for? Isnt that worth crying about? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnprk6acztzvvfc0vnw3afjn)) ## New highlights added May 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM > He was a bit like Dirac. Or Chandrasekhar. He had an abiding faith in the aesthetic. He thought the Higgs paper too elegant to be wrong. For instance. You can add Glashow’s SU(5) theory to the list. Lovely theory. And wrong. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jt8x424dehn2g9x5fspt44wv))