“My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
“To know any thing, time must go backward.”
― The Unmemntioable
― The Unmemntioable
“The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.”
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“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.”
― Endgame
― Endgame
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