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Forte / Moldoff!

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DO NOT DESPAIR!

These books will bring you joy!

Truth is the anagram of an anagram. Anagrams = ars magna.
•Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum (1988).

God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience.
•Melville, Moby-Dick (1851).

Is it but a world of trouble—
Sadness set to song?
Is its beauty but a bubble
Bound to break ere long?

Are its palaces and pleasures
Fantasies that fade?
And the glory of its treasures
Shadow o...

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Kirby/Brodsky!

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This book is for weirdos only

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
•Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathurstra (1883).

Along came the bishop, his robe a tatter:
Sleep and it won’t matter.
•Niedecker, For Paul: Six Alternative Sequences, Group Two (1951).

To me, even kind sleep is cruel.
•Nonnos, Dionysiaca (C5).

Night is always a giant, but this one was especially terrible.
•Nabokov, Transparent Things (1972).

Arouse thyself! How long more wilt thou slumber?
See thyself, full of marve...

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Russ Manning!

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William Kloman: There was a curious story in one of the news magazines recently about the exceptional instability of marriages around the space installations.
Stanley Kubrick: Because the machines are so sexy.
•“In 2001, Will Love Be a Seven-Letter Word?” NY Times 4.14.68.

The caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster’s horrible crowing.
•Georges Bataille, The Story of the Eye (1...

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Eisner/Feiffer!

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Our astronomers are interested only in stars we cannot see.
•Jules Verne, Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863/1994).

Many people wished Grettir a safe journey, but few a safe return.
•Grettis Saga (c. 1400).

He hiked the rucksack onto his shoulder and walked away through the woods, leaving her alone on the grass, not even pausing to look back.¶You never know just who might turn you into salt.
•Richard ...

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Andru/Esposito!

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Back in Brownsville, I often heard it said,
“Life is so hard that
sometimes I think it’s better not
to be born at all.
But who’s so lucky?
Maybe one in ten thousand.”
•Dave Berg, My Friend God (1972).

Those children I never wanted to have—if only they knew what happiness they owe me!
•E.M. Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations (1987).

The earth is an oyster with nothing inside it,
Not to be born is the best for man.
•W.H. Auden, “Death’s Echo” (1936).

…nor scaped nature the...