Maybe this is what it’s like when you die. Your inbox stays empty. At first, you just think nobody’s answering, so you check your SENT box to make sure your outgoing mail is okay, and then you check y...
Maketa, I said, throwing myself down in the sand. I lost. The ocean won.She smiled. Was it a good feeling?Mm, I said.That’s good, she said. Have another rice ball?
I’m a novelist, Ruth said. I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.
If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the and yo...
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit on a zafu cushion on the floor with your legs crossed, but you can sit on...
I thought I understood everything about cruelty, but it turns out, I didn’t understand anything at all.
I don't hate anybody.
I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.
Have you ever bullied a wave?
Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention? Is the Internet a kind of temporal gyre, sucking up stories, like geodrift, into its orbit? What is its gyre memory? How do...
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way aro...
What is it that frightens us about a "novel of causes", and conversely, does fiction have to exist in some suspended, apolitical landscape in order to be literary? Can it not politically and temporall...
— Квантовая информация — это как информация из сна, — сказал он. — Мы не можем показать ее другим, а когда мы пытаемся ее описать, мы меняем память о ней
В своем дневнике ты цитируешь высказывание Дзико — что-то насчет незнания, вроде незнание сближает людей сильнее, чем что бы то ни было еще, или мне это просто приснилось? В общем, я много об этом дум...
What’s the point in beating yourself up when other people will do it for you?
We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century, Oliver said. Who isn't?
Together we'll make magic...Who had conjured whom?She seemed to remember Oliver suggesting this once before, but she hadn't really appreciated the importance of his question. Was she the dream? Was Na...
The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?
The eternal now, he said. She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point. Of writing? Or suicide.
Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she’s just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. Sh...