How’s that, Motella. Ooh, like wondering how it must be, getting into bed with somebody, who has another person’s name? tattooed on his body? No problem unless all you do in bed is read, muttered Lour...
He gazed at Reef in almost unconcealed envy, failing completely to recognize the darker thing, the desire, the desperate need to create a radius of annihilation that, if it could not include the ones...
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top of the world, this deep whirlpool that’d take you down and in, li...
To rule forever, continues the Chinaman, later, it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally...
Tis fascinating, this belief among you Men of Science, remarks Dr. J., that Time is ever more simply transcended, the further one is willing to journey away from London, to observe it. Why, Mason here...
Time of course has showed the question up in all its young illogic. We can justify any apologia simply by calling life a successive rejection of personalities. No apologia I s any more than a romance—...
This advice has been given often and more compellingly elsewhere, but my specific piece of wrong procedure back then was, incredibly, to browse through the thesaurus and note words that sounded cool,...
The Stars are so close you won’t need a Telescope. The Fish jump into your Arms. The Indians know Magick. We’ll go there. We’ll live there. We’ll fish there. And you too.
Teamwork, Koteks snarled, is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.
Some days it seems like every lowlife in town has Tail ’Em and Nail ’Em on their grease-stained Rolodex. A number of phone messages have piled up on the answering machine, breathers, telemarketers, ev...
She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided...
She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing his seizure. Afterward it is only this signal, really d...
San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping...
Reader, she bit him.
Quello del saltimbanco è un mestiere in via di estinzione era solito ammettere nei suoi momenti di frivolezza. I migliori sono passati tutti alla politica.
People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.
PAVLOVIA (BEGUINE) It was spring in Pavlovia-a-a, I was lost, in a maze . . . Lysol breezes perfumed the air, I’d been searching for days. I found you, in a cul-de-sac, As bewildered as I— We touche...
Out of the blackness of the ward, a half-open file drawer of pain each bed a folder, come cries, struck cries, as from cold metal.
Our Meat Facial today, Ms. Loeffler? Uhm, how’s that. You didn’t get our offer in the mail? on special all this week, works miracles for the complexion—freshly killed, of course, before those enzymes’...