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“Waiting, we say, is long. We might just as well — or more accurately — say it is short, since it consumes whole spaces of time without our living them or making any use of them as such. We may compare him who lives on expectation to a greedy man, whose digestive apparatus works through quantities of food without converting it into anything of value or nourishment to his system. We might almost go so far as to say that, as undigested food makes man no stronger, so time spent in waiting makes him no older. But in practice, of course, there is hardly such a thing as pure and unadulterated waiting.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“I thought to myself that only now had she begun to sell her
children. When she started telling about them. Without a story, it was
all nothing but business.
Telling stories is part of Judgment Day, because it makes people understand. But what the point of understanding is remains unclear. I
put these stories in the box, too.”
― The Physics of Sorrow
children. When she started telling about them. Without a story, it was
all nothing but business.
Telling stories is part of Judgment Day, because it makes people understand. But what the point of understanding is remains unclear. I
put these stories in the box, too.”
― The Physics of Sorrow
“I write in the first person to make sure that I’m still alive.
I write in the third person to make sure that I’m not just a projection of my own self, that I’m three-dimensional and have a body.
Sometimes I nudge a glass and note with satisfaction that it falls and breaks. So I do still exist and cause consequences.
If no one is watching me, then I’ll have to watch myself, so as not to turn into quantum soup.”
― The Physics of Sorrow
I write in the third person to make sure that I’m not just a projection of my own self, that I’m three-dimensional and have a body.
Sometimes I nudge a glass and note with satisfaction that it falls and breaks. So I do still exist and cause consequences.
If no one is watching me, then I’ll have to watch myself, so as not to turn into quantum soup.”
― The Physics of Sorrow
“Old age is getting used to things.”
― The Physics of Sorrow
― The Physics of Sorrow
“Abandon” is a word he doesn’t yet know. I don’t yet know. The absence of the word does not negate the fear, on the contrary, it heaps up ever higher, making it even more intolerable, crushing. The tears begin, now it’s their turn, the only consolers. At least he can cry, the fear has uncorked them, the pitcher of fear has run over. The tears stream down his face, down my face, they mix with the flour dust on the face, water, salt, and flour, and knead the first bread of grief. The bread that never runs out. The bread of sorrow, which will feed us through all the coming years. Its salty taste on the lips.”
― Физика на тъгата
― Физика на тъгата
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