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"A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull's repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost."
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
"'Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!'
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors."
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors."
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
"...in the morning -- 'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it' -- ..."
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
"Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives."
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
"After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence."
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
— M. John Harrison (Things That Never Happen)
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