Former and future nerdistocracy slowly, and to look at them you’d think reluctantly, filtering back out into the street, into the long September which has been with them in a virtual way since spring...
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of th...
Dream tonight of peacock tails,Diamond fields and spouter whales.Ills are many, blessings few,But dreams tonight will shelter you.Let the vampire's creaking wingHide the stars while banshees sing;Let...
Damn you all. You have no idea what you're heading into. This world you take to be 'the' world will die, and descend into Hell, and all history after that will belong properly to the history of Hell.
Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.
But underneath all this reasonable talk, this scientific speculating, no white Afrikaner could quite put down the way it felt…Something sinister was moving out in the veld: he was beginning to look at...
At the corner store they invaded a hot dog stand and drank pina colada to sober up. It did no good.
At no point in this did Frank think he was dreaming, probably because he seldom remembered dreams, or paid attention to them even if he did. And though this all had the alert immediacy of daytime Mexi...
Astronomy is as soil'd at the hands of the Pelhamites as ev'ry other Business in this Kingdom,— and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery, as much as any Nincompoop at Court.
As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.
As ever, he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies, their inability to hold back, the purity of the not-yet-dishonest,— 'twould take a harder Case than Mason not to struggle with Tears of Sent...
All this home-computer gaming, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, now this Xbox thing, maybe I just want the boys to see what blowing aliens away was like in the olden days.
Aitisi nai poroja, replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, Your mother fucks reindeer.
Ainda precisamos de uma centésima quarta pessoa para o bridge, disse, com uma risadinha árida. O bridge, die Brücke, a ponte, era o apelido dado por ele à experiência em que colaborava com o hospital...
After the 11 September attack, March editorializes one morning, amid all that chaos and confusion, a hole quietly opened up in American history, a vacuum of accountability, into which assets human and...
After that long of more named pavements than he’d care to count, Profane had grown a little leery of streets, especially streets like this. They had in fact all fused into a single abstracted Street,...
A schlemihl is a schlemihl. What can you make out of one? What can one make out of himself? You reach a point, and Profane knew he had reached it, where you know how much you can and cannot do. But ev...
A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, just under the threshold of lip and tongue movement: Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic. I...
The hole left by the moon’s tearing-free and monument to her exile;
That's what Jesus meant, whispers the ghost of Slothrop's first American ancestor William, venturing out on the Sea of Galilee. He saw it from the lemming point of view. Without the millions who had p...