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"I couldn't figure it out. I glanced back over the house [audience] again. Individual faces moved into focus: Normals with gray hair, red hair, white skin, black skin. Normals with contorted faces stoning the personification of themselves. I couldn't figure it out. -- T.D.H" — Aug 31, 2026 01:22AM
"I couldn't figure it out. I glanced back over the house [audience] again. Individual faces moved into focus: Normals with gray hair, red hair, white skin, black skin. Normals with contorted faces stoning the personification of themselves. I couldn't figure it out. -- T.D.H" — Aug 31, 2026 01:22AM
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" The Portrait: The artist admonishes the student: "Be wary how you render the eyes, a demon lies within."" — Aug 03, 2026 04:18AM
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"The coachman came back, but at the moment he stopped in front of Swann, Swann did not say to him: "Did you find the lady?" but: "Remind me, tomorrow, to order more wood; I think our supply must be almost exhausted." [...] and would have gone on talking to him about supplies of wood in order to hide the emotion he felt and allow himself time to separate from his uneasiness and give himself up to his happiness. -- M.P." — Jun 04, 2026 05:19AM
"The coachman came back, but at the moment he stopped in front of Swann, Swann did not say to him: "Did you find the lady?" but: "Remind me, tomorrow, to order more wood; I think our supply must be almost exhausted." [...] and would have gone on talking to him about supplies of wood in order to hide the emotion he felt and allow himself time to separate from his uneasiness and give himself up to his happiness. -- M.P." — Jun 04, 2026 05:19AM
“Poseidon sat at his desk, doing figures. The administration of all the waters gave him endless work. [...] It cannot be said that he enjoyed his work; he did it only because it had been assigned to him; in fact, he had already filed many petitions for--as he put it--more cheerful work, but every time the offer of something different was made to him it turned out that nothing suited him quite as well as his present position.”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
“If I ever get reincarnated, it occurred to me, let me make certain I don't come back as a paperclip.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“I ran past the first watchman. Then I was horrified, ran back and said to the watchman: "I ran through here while you were looking the other way." The watchman gazed ahead of him and said nothing. "I suppose I really oughtn't to have done it," I said. The watchman still said nothing. "Does your silence indicate permission to pass?”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
“If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
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“There is a confusion between myself and the literary world about what should constitute a text. I believe (along with many other writers historically) that a text should be elusive, and that the act of reading a text should make the reader conscious of the life they are living. That is, the text should overflow its borders, demonstrating the complicity of our consciousness with the coloring of our surroundings and the supposed sequentiality of events. To write texts this way, one must stop prior to the point of total explanation.”
― Autoportrait
― Autoportrait
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