Сознание не терпит пустоты, а потому склонно населять ее призраками.
You ask a starved man, Gerritszoon says, to drink to a glutton.
If you don’t want the fish, why do you catch them? A few seconds pass. For the quality of the conversation.
I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.
A wise man does not step betwixt the beast and his meat
What's the book like?Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!
¿Te das cuenta, verdad, mi querido lector? Estaba metido en un asilo de película de serie B. Cuanto más rabiaba y despotricaba, más demostraba que debería estar donde estaba.
Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man, are the same faculties that’ll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!
Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if his voice is leaning on mine.
Valleysmen’d not want to hear, she answered, that human hunger birthed the Civ’lize, but human hunger killed it too. I know it from other tribes offland what I stayed with. Times are you say a person’...
To kill what you’d cherish & cure, he opined, that seems to be the way of things.
All minds pulse in a unique way, just as every lighthouse in the world has a unique signature. Some minds pulse consistently, some erratically. Some are lukewarm, some are hot. Some flare out, some ar...
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just the same.
In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
Well, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax? I play Go against my sony, I said.To relax? he responded, incredulous. Who wins, you or the sony?The sony, I answered, or how would I ever improve?So winn...
An unkind describer might refer to her face as like a party nobody’s turned up to.
Some might think that acting all modest and yet feeling all megalomaniacal is dishonest. I say it’s a cultural thing. And of course it’s not megalomania (well, if it is, I’m the worst person to judge...
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
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