Her cell phone is ringing, but the display is turned off. She lightly pushes a small dot on the skin on her left forearm to suddenly reveal a two by four inch tattoo with the image of the cell phone’s digital display, directly in the skin of her arm.
• A tatuagem digital
When the right hemisphere of the brain, the seat of emotion, is stimulated in the cerebral region presumed to control notions of self, and then the left hemisphere, the seat of language, is called upon to make sense of this nonexistent entity, the mind generates a “sensed presence”.
• A simulação de Deus
Looking down at the application, it blurred in front of my eyes. Could I really do this? Could I really become a — a car salesman? Me, a law abiding middle-aged American. A — gasp — college graduate (well, barely). A writer. A person sometimes described as soft spoken and reserved? Why was I applying for a job in one of the most loathed professions in our society?
• Na pele de um vendedor de carros
Crumb é um tímido rematado que se encurva, magro, se esconde atrás dos óculos e tem ar de quem conheceu mais pessoas do que teria desejado. Mais tarde, à mesa de um restaurante vietnamita da cidadezinha vizinha, ele explica: “Não vejo que interesse há em falar comigo. É muito melhor falar com Aline. Me perguntam: “Por que vocês se mudaram para a França?”. E eu digo: “Não sei. Aline, por que o fizemos?’”.
• Visita a Crumbland (só p/ assinantes folha/uol)