Reece

“Because the dictionary created its suspense with one word lost in a wood of words (not like needles in a haystack which are easy to find, but one particular pin in a pincushion) and there was the wrong word and the word innocent and the word guilty and the word-assassin and the word-police and the word-chase and the word-rescue-patrol in the last word-reel and lastly the word end, and because the suspense of the dictionary lay in seeing oneself looking desperately for a word up and down the columns until one found it and when it turned up seeing that it meant something different, this was better than one's surprise at the last real...”
― Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers

“Tautology creates a dead, a motionless world.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“We can all write about suffering
with our eyes closed. You should show people
more of yourself; show them your clandestine
passion for read meat.”
― Louise Glück, Meadowlands

“I ask again: - Do we carry our landscapes with us locked in our ice-hearts, and can we fit them over what was there just as we can clothe ourselves forever in the stiff and crackling cloaks that lie in the churchyard permafrost at Herjolfsness?”
― William T. Vollmann, The Ice-Shirt