“I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Ada...
2025-05-11 09:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I wou...
2025-05-10 09:16:28 +0000 UTC View Post
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately foll...
2025-05-10 09:16:08 +0000 UTC View Post
"And that's what your holy men discuss, is it?" [asked Granny Weatherwax.]
"Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin. for example." [answered ...
2025-05-09 07:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post
“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or some...
2025-05-09 07:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all ma...
2025-05-08 13:32:56 +0000 UTC View Post
"The human spirit is prey to the most astounding impulses. Man goes constantly in fear of himself. His erotic urges terrify him. The saint turns from the voluptuary in alarm; she does not know that...
2025-05-08 13:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
“The Genie smiled; even I saw what he was thinking. ‘But you say you’ve read the book!’ Sherry exclaimed. ‘Then you must remember what stories are in it, and in which order!’
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“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and...
2025-05-07 06:43:41 +0000 UTC View Post
"As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom and decorum of the things ...
2025-05-06 08:01:43 +0000 UTC View Post
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and ...
2025-05-06 08:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. Borne, flung, tugged from anyw...
2025-05-05 11:06:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hear that? Living skulls! What are we doing here? What war at Troy? Does anyone care? Gods of love and hate! Aren't they the same god? All of us, all our lives, searching for the one perfect ene...
2025-05-05 11:06:07 +0000 UTC View Post
"Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope...
2025-05-04 14:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, ...
2025-05-04 10:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much mor...
2025-05-04 10:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post
"Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth...
2025-05-03 07:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country house on Gaona Street in Ramos Mejia; the encyclop...
2025-05-03 07:04:12 +0000 UTC View Post
“So I was privileged to see the last rites of the Bokononist faith. We made an effort to find someone among the soldiers and the household staff who would admit that he knew the rites and would g...
2025-05-02 12:43:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness – that in every generation there are a few souls, call ...
2025-05-02 12:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post
“A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we’re at it, what’s the story about?...
2025-05-01 07:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
“Describing something is like using it – it destroys; the colours wear off, the corners lose their definition, and in the end what’s been described begins to fade, to disappear. This applies ...
2025-05-01 07:37:09 +0000 UTC View Post
“On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brilliance. At first I thought it was revolving; then I realised that this movement was an il...
2025-04-30 10:12:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The Gender of Sound
Chapter 6
It is in large part according to the sounds people make that we judge them sane or insane, male or female, good evil, tru...
2025-04-30 10:12:39 +0000 UTC View Post
“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens, spike topped walls and treble-bolted door...
2025-04-29 07:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post
"Other creatures have it just about as easy. A blood fluke starts out as an egg in human feces. If it happens to fall into fresh water, it will live only if it happens to encounter a certain. speci...
2025-04-29 07:11:26 +0000 UTC View Post
"The landscape of earth is dotted and smeared with masses of apparently identical individual animals, from the great Pleistocene herds that blanketed grasslands to the gluey gobs of bacteria that c...
2025-04-28 11:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post
“For us, eating and being eaten belong to the terrible secret of love. We love only the person we can eat. The person we hate we ‘can’t swallow.’ That one makes us vomit. Even our friends a...
2025-04-28 11:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“Sparks come from the very source of light and are made of the purest brightness—so say the oldest legends. When a human Being is to be born, a spark begins to fall. First it flies through the ...
2025-04-27 07:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
“Palm sex. Rings a bell, I know, what with the joke about Mrs Palmer and her five lovely daughters. Wish I could find that funny, but like the act it’s too obvious and predictable. Fondle-rub-o...
2025-04-27 07:41:30 +0000 UTC View Post