progress:
(page 178 of 764)
"I'm a terrible reader of history. I perk up when something novelistic crops up--not even anecdotes, just, a letter that says to kill the bearer, or the grisly slo-mo comedy of hostile rampart construction duel, but otherwise, the slew of names and the hardnosed insights wash over me and past. I wish this book were not timely." — Mar 08, 2026 02:29PM
"I'm a terrible reader of history. I perk up when something novelistic crops up--not even anecdotes, just, a letter that says to kill the bearer, or the grisly slo-mo comedy of hostile rampart construction duel, but otherwise, the slew of names and the hardnosed insights wash over me and past. I wish this book were not timely." — Mar 08, 2026 02:29PM
“He had thought the story was *theirs*, People's, that he was in it by chance, somehow impelled into it by reasons not his, that it was a thing torn out of Ymr that shouldn't be in Ka at all. But Kits was right, it was he who'd been in it, not People, however much they wanted to be and he had not. It was his story, and the stories about the story were his too. He was girdled in story, trapped in story, and the only way out was through.”
― Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
― Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
“I become a spherical reflecting eye moving through the wilderness and ingesting it. Destroyer of the wilderness, I move through the land cutting a devouring path from horizon to horizon. There is nothing from which my eye turns. I am all that I see. Such loneliness! Not a stone, not a bush, not a wretched provident ant that is not comprehended in this traveling sphere. What is there that is not me? I am a transparent sac with a black core full of images and a gun.”
―
―
“They supposed that their tinted papers showed something of what a man saw apart from himself--something they called the visible world. But they had never considered where that world must lie. They fondled their scraps of paper and admired the stains and blotches seemingly fixed there. But did they know that all the while the great tide of daylight was ebbing away from all they looked at and pouring through the holes in their faces into a profound darkness? If the visible world was anywhere, it was somewhere in that darkness--an island lapped by the boundless ocean of the visible.”
― The Plains
― The Plains
“My father is dead!" As soon as he'd said it, Fiskadoro saw he'd made it true again--again for the first time. Did it just go around and around? He began to see that his sorrow wasn't simple. It wasn't one thing, but a thousand things carrying him away to the Ocean: the work of a person's life was to drink it.”
― Fiskadoro
― Fiskadoro
“I couldn't be bothered to deal with fixing things. I preferred to wallow in the problem, dream of better days.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 317045 members
— last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Reading John Crowley's Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
— 3 members
— last activity Feb 02, 2020 06:00AM
A group for a close reading of John Crowley's novel Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. This is for first time readers AND re-readers. All are welcome. ...more
The Year of Reading Proust
— 1634 members
— last activity Mar 29, 2025 09:41AM
2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Bruno’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bruno’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Bruno
Lists liked by Bruno














































