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Even then I might not go. Frankly, I do not like the way death does business.”
The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
The peasants of Aelfric are like bushes, like salamanders. They were born one thing and will die one thing. But you . . . you have already been a warrior, a king, and a serf, and from the looks of it, you aren't through yet. Thus, you have learned the secret of the new direction. That is: a man can be many things. Maybe anything.
Sooner or later, men will come along whose belief in the supremacy of the exceptional, extraordinary, isolated individual will cause them to
declare themselves exempt from controls. In their uniqueness, they will not hesitate to defy accepted standards. Oh,
How apropos for our times today
Most of the peasants are content to die. For them, death means the cessation of toil. At last they can drop their soiled and battered bodies and enter the dimension of pure spirit. Plants
in Alobar the fear of the unknown and the joy of self-recognition. It
gods can die. We live only so long as people believe in us.”
Daughters of the Daily Special,
an organization of waitresses with university degrees.
Evidently, all restaurant cooks were psychotic, some were just less violent than others. It was all rather depressing.
LOUISIANA IN SEPTEMBER was like an obscene phone call from nature.
The only way to hang up on the obscene caller was to install air conditioning.
Love this sentence!
“Here they teach that much of existence amounts only to misery; that misery is caused by desire; therefore, if desire is eliminated, then misery will be eliminated. Now, that is true enough, as far as it goes. There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure in order to avoid misery, what has he gained? A life with neither misery nor pleasure is an empty, neutral existence, and, indeed, it is the nothingness of the void that is the lamas' final objective. To actively seek nothingness is worse than defeat; why, Kudra, it is
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Love this exploration of life especially in pandemic times. finding the line through foolishness abd fear.
“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire.
Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to tempt us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void.
Think aboutt this as a theme for more writing
Reluctantly, he led her down from the outcropping, whose grass was destined to go unmoistened by their mingled dew.
cleverly crafted sentence describing the consummated connection between them
the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?
She was resigned to having him mount her.
He is overwhelmingly exciting, she thought. Then she added, Not in any sexual way, of course. He excited her because he was as damned as she was, yet had no regrets. He actually made damnation seem attractive.
This Notion as an internal thought process os onferesting for a character
believer who refused to grovel,
A king you are still, she thought, vowing never again to doubt his various reputations.
Stone remains, water goes, he thought. For once, at least, he knew where he was going.
If we have everything already, then there can be no desire, for there is nothing left to want. I think that what the Buddha may have been trying to tell us is that we have it all, each of us, all the time; therefore, desire
is simply unnecessary.”
“To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everyth...
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infinity, apparently, did not travel safe highways or join in polite company.
“The next time you encounter Bandaloop, it will be a dance craze sweeping Argentina in 1986.”
A bartender's beauty is in his moves. Like a lover's, like a matador's.
The finished product means little: a spent orgasm, a dead bull. Satiation and stringy beef. To be sure, there are drinks of fine workmanship and drinks of poor; there are coherent ramos fizzes and incoherent; there are martinis in which the gin is autonomous and martinis where integration and harmony of ingredients prevail; bloody marys can suffer high blood pressure or low. Yet Priscilla had never heard a customer complain of a drink, unless it was to impress a companion, unless there wasn't enough booze therein, and at El Papa Muerta, at least, there was always enough booze.
A bartender's beauty is in his moves, in the way he struts his stuff, in the field of rhythms that is set up in the orchestrated ...
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Madame Lily Devalier always asked “Where are you?” in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
WHEN WE ACCEPT SMALL WONDERS, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
Declaratory Statement to start the chater
somnambulant,
squamulous,
Sacrebleu.”
"Jamais!"
mangel-wurzel.
