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Imagination creates the situation, and then, the situation creates imagination. It may, of course, be the other way around: Columbus was discovered by what he found.
Who, indeed. I may be able to tell you who I am, but I am also discovering who I am not. I want to be an honest man. And I want to be a good writer. I don’t know if one ever gets to be what one wants to be. You just have to play it by ear, and pray for rain.
My days are not their days. My ways are not their ways. I would not think of them, one way or the other, did not they so grotesquely block the view between me and my brother. And, so, I always wonder: can blindness be desired? Then, what must the blinded eyes have seen to wish to see no more!
creation yearns to re-create a time when we were able to recognize a crime.
Lord, History is weary of her unspeakable liaison with Time, for Time and History have never seen eye to eye: Time laughs at History and time and time and time again Time traps History in a lie.
that the brightest hour we will ever see occurs just before we cease to be.
my Lord, I am delivered out of the jaws of hell. My journey splits my skull, and, as I rise, I fall.
The hardest thing of all is hearing the silence fall— or, no, to see it, touch it, watch silence take a form, watch silence proudly stride between connecting rooms, hear silence ride between, between, between you, and all others, you and you.
