January 2010
60 posts
“I always say - a prejudice on my part, I’m sure - you can tell a lot about...”
– Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
“I am overrated,” said the sculptor to the sea.
“I’ve been praised...”
– Lewis Takes Off His Shirt
Final Fantasy
“Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a...”
– (via fuckyeahnietzsche) (via lapetitebaobab)
“I was an infant when my parents died.
They both were ornithologists. I’ve...”
– Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
“The mountains at their loveliest—and court cases dwindle,—’The birds I saw off...”
– 湯顯祖, 牡丹亭 (via ilymaus)
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The nature of half-waking permits a certain fluidity of thinking, and it was in this manner that contemplation of the errant ring finger gently changed course to the subject of loneliness, both as an abstract concept and a personal reality. He was adrift: on the unique sensation of his own loneliness, round like a marble…ponderous…an unsettling pressure against the palate, too wide to spit out…
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