Yourself to sleep at night. Bleed your weasel.
Every timidity eventually turns into regret.
Everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.
Everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.
Extravagances unheard of a year before. Frau Elena buys a new couch upholstered in orange corduroy, and a range with burners in black rings; three new Bibles arrive from the consistory in Berlin; a la...
Family? Surely more than genes, eye color, flesh. Family was story: truth and struggle and retribution. Family was time. At the other end of the continent Felix was lying in a hospital bed, asleep, su...
Fashion spears,
Father shoves things into what
Forever, but so long as he kept it, misfortunes would fall on all those he loved one after another in unending rain. Live forever? But if the keeper threw the diamond into the sea, thereby delivering...
From Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
From Volkheimer to Werner.
Führer himself on an altar a half mile away, spotlights illuminating pillars behind him, the atmosphere oversaturated with meaning and anger and righteousness,
Gadrooned
Gibbous.
Granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous,
Hand dies within a week. No, no, if you hold it, you
Wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world—what pretensions...
He can
He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.
Her shoes. The world seems to sway gently back and forth, as though the town is drifting lightly away. As though back onshore, all of France is left to bite its fingernails and flee and stumble and we...
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