Why You Should Read Proust

Meaningfulness is solely a matter of available detail and really nothing is more important than that

I was talking to my brother the other day about a question he posed, why we prefer music played loudly, and, after some thought, answered that maybe we prefer it for the same reason we find psychedelic and religious states so valuable: our experience of the world becomes granular, and for whatever reason states of meaning and satisfaction follow from a …