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

“I bump against the railings and begin to go down the stairs cursing them: one foot in the void/ another foot into the abyss/ another one into nowhere. When'll they turn on the lights in this fucking house?”
― Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Three Trapped Tigers

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

“I'm always seeking something, it's tiring in the end - and it's only the beginning,”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable