The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik Quotes

“I romanticize my past and I romanticize my future; right now is always the bleakest moment of my life.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“I do not understand these things. But that’s okay. Not understanding isn’t the same as misunderstanding.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“and I tell her she can still love this flawed thing. I tell her it will be a different love, a little sadder maybe, but wiser, too. I tell her that if we can’t love flawed things, we probably wouldn’t love anything at all.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Some books are songs like that, the ones you go back to, make playlists of, put on repeat.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“And if someone were to ask, Noah, what’s the most important aspect of story? I would most likely answer, character, but I’m not sure that’s true, because my favorite books contain my favorite places. I do not say, I love Harry Potter, or I love Frodo Baggins; I say, I love Hogwarts, and I love Middle-earth. Thoreau’s Walden is less about the book, more about the pond. The woods. And so setting, I think, is the secret weapon of storytelling. I always want to meet new people until I’ve met them. I think if I spend enough time with a person so we get woven together like an old basket, eventually we’ll think in similar patterns until our various histories are apples and oranges spilling over the edge of the basket, and I think this kind of shared history is dangerous. I think it’s okay to recognize a thing’s faults and still like that thing. Because apples and oranges spilling from a basket can be beautiful too. I think I’m whatever personality hates personality tests. I think nostalgia is just a soul’s way of missing a thing, and like long-distance love, nostalgia grows deeper with time until the reality of what a thing actually was gets blurred to the point you miss the idea of the thing more than the thing itself. I like the idea of hot cocoa more than drinking”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“It’s like this big maze, see. With fire-breathing dragons and land mines and decoys at every turn. And the maze goes on for hundreds of miles, and just when you think maybe you’ve gotten through—a dead end. Years of wrong turns and mistakes and battles with those dragons, years of bruises, cuts, and burns, but eventually? You make it. You come out the other end of the maze, and you’re a little banged up, but you’re okay. And maybe you meet someone else who was in the maze at the same time, only you didn’t know it. So you talk to this person, compare notes on the maze, and you hear all the ways they made it through that you never thought of, and you tell them all the ways you made it through that they never thought of, and from this shared understanding you grow to love one another. And that love deepens with time. And maybe you and this other person have a child.” Mom starts crying, and so do I. “A perfect, lovely little kid, and you swear you’ll do everything you can to spare your kid from the fire-breathing dragons and the land mines and the decoys. I’ll draw them a map, you think, a detailed map of the maze outlining the quickest routes, pitfalls to avoid, shortcuts that took you years to learn, and maybe this way they won’t end up with bruises and burns like yours.” I squeeze Mom’s hand tighter, let the tears come. “Mom.” She smiles and cries. “You think you have so much time to work on the map, to make it just right. And then one day you wake up to find your perfect, lovely child is already there, right in the thick of the maze. You were so diligent, kept watch every night, and you don’t know when or how it happened, but it did. Your kid is in the maze without a map, and there’s nothing you can do but watch.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“But I also know that sometimes—not always, but in the best of cases—innocence lost can be knowledge gained, and I think this is one of those times.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“I have this theory about teachers, and what separates the good ones from the bad: it's not that good teachers don't think about quitting; it's that they never look like they've already quit.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“I’m indifferent, actually. I don’t feel strongly one way or the other, which is like a lost art. It’s like, if you don’t love something or hate something, your opinion doesn’t count. But not everything boils down to the best and the worst. Not everything fucking rules or fucking sucks, some things are just a little okay, or a little not okay, and that’s that.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“In the background Bowie sings of lawmen and cavemen, sailors fighting in dance halls, and I wish he were here now, in this kitchen with me, and I would hold his hand and together we would talk of life—on Mars, or otherwise.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“I love the intentional, aimless wander that comes from years of experience roaming the aisles of libraries, imagining all those who have tread before--some at a casual saunter, hands in pockets maybe, taking it all in; some frantically scanning the spines for that one book that might save their lives--and letting the mind delve the depths of a proper vanishing among books, just really good and fucking turned around.
There is no kind of lost like library lost.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“I think nostalgia is just a soul’s way of missing a thing, and like long-distance love, nostalgia grows deeper with time until the reality of what a thing actually was gets blurred to the point you miss the idea of the thing more than the thing itself. I like the idea of hot cocoa more than drinking it.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“...it's like we start these trajectories when we're twelve, or worse, the trajectories are started for us, and then we're expected to stay on that trajectory for the rest of our lives? ... I want a new trajectory. Everything---everyone---in my life is stagnant...It's like my life is this old sweater. And I've outgrown it (51)”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“There are many places I would like to live, and many times in which I would like to live, and I think listening to music that was composed in a time or place I’ve never lived is the closest I can get to making that happen.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Pe 8 ianuarie 1947 s‑a născut David Robert Jones la Londra. Era într‑o miercuri. Ningea. Dincolo de Atlantic, un băiețel pe nume Elvis își serba cea de‑a douăsprezecea zi de naștere. Niciunul nu a arătat vreun talent muzical de timpuriu, deși amândoi aveau să zguduie din temelii muzica, dându‑i cu totul alte forme, până când însuși cuvântul „muzică“ a devenit de nerecunoscut.
Când s‑a născut micul David, legenda spune că moașa ar fi declarat: „Acest copil a mai fost și altă dată pe lumea asta.“ Peste ani, David Robert Jones a devenit David Bowie, iar lumea a început să intre la bănuieli cum că poate a mai fost și pe alte planete.
Când s‑a născut Elvis, pe 8 ianuarie, cu doisprezece ani mai devreme, fratele său geamăn nu a supraviețuit. Gladys Presley le va spune prietenilor că fiul ei Elvis „avea energie cât doi“. Elvis a fost obsedat mai toată viața de moartea fratelui său și de propria supraviețuire aparent întâmplătoare. Unii oameni au mai fost pe lumea asta, pe când alții nu apucă să vină deloc.
Pe 8 ianuarie 1973 s‑a lansat cu succes pe orbită o navetă spațială numită Luna 21, pilotată de la distanță.
După ce a aterizat pe Lună, Luna 21 a pus în mișcare un vehicul spațial robotic sovietic pe nume Lunohod 2, care a realizat peste 80.000 de fotografii TV și 86 de imagini panoramice.
Micul David s‑a făcut mare, a compus cântece despre cosmonauți și spațiu și a lansat un album chiar în luna în care a aterizat Apollo 11 pe Lună. (Printre altele, Apollo mai e și zeul muzicii.)
Peste mulți ani, fiul lui David Bowie va regiza un film cu titlul Luna.
Micul Elvis s‑a făcut mare și a intrat într‑o formație cu numele Blue Moon Boys. Fiica lui se va mărita mai târziu cu un star al muzicii, celebru pentru un dans cu numele de moonwalk.
Mai târziu, Elvis și‑a lansat o carieră solo și și‑a ales ca manager un tip pe nume Thomas Parker. „Nu cred că
aș fi devenit vreodată cineva dacă n‑ar fi fost el“, urma să declare Elvis despre Parker.
Porecla lui Thomas Parker era Colonelul Tom. Colonelul Tom l‑a preschimbat pe Elvis într‑o stea.
David Bowie a compus un cântec despre un maior Tom, lăsat să plutească printre stele.
Luna 21 și Lunohod 2 nu mai sunt acum pe Lună. Nici micul David, micul Elvis și dansatorul de moonwalk nu
mai sunt în funcțiune. Însă muzica lor n‑a murit. Doar am ascultat‑o și știu.
La fel și pozele realizate de Lunohod 2. Doar le‑am văzut și știu.
Mă gândesc adesea la subtilele legături din univers, întinzându‑se peste timp și spațiu, unele sărind din stea în stea ca niște pietricele pe oglinda unui iaz, iar altele rămase să plutească în marele infinit aleatoriu. Mă gândesc la cuvinte gen reîncarnare, relativitate sau paralel. Și mă întreb dacă se întâmplă să aterizeze vreo pietricică de două ori în același loc.
M‑am născut pe 8 ianuarie.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“The most beneficial quality of family – the assurance that should something happen to one of us, it will happen to each of us. It’s a contract signed in blood at birth: Do you, Tiny Infant Who Knows Nothing, take these completely random people to be permanent fixtures in your life forever and ever? We sign that shit on the dotted line, and we do so happily, because it means, for better or worse, we will not be alone.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“He prays his dwindling faith is faith enough”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Mi se pare de‑a dreptul ignorant din partea mea să mă întorc spre viitor și să zic „Imposibil“.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Eu unul nu înțeleg asemenea lucruri. Dar nu‑i nimic. Să nu înțelegi nu înseamnă să înțelegi greșit. Și poate cândva, nu mult în viitor, se va naște un nou cuvânt și o altă carte va fi mutată de pe raftul SF pe acela de științe, și o să putem să ne întoarcem spre viitor – poate chiar spre multivers – și să spunem: „Poate o să merg într‑o zi acolo.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Creo que escribir no se trata tanto de las palabras sino del silencio que hay entre ellas”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“He’s in a mood. Par for the course this time of year. You two, come in out of the cold and have some tea. I’ve got everything but those nasty dregs of the devil, Earl Grey.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik