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“The light on the Palace windows had died away, and the dome of the Pantheon swam aglow above the northern terrace, a fiery Valhalla in the sky; while below in grim array, along the terrace ranged, the marble ranks of queens looked out into the west.”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
“for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
― Là-Bas
― Là-Bas
“At last he whispered: 'Sylvia, it is I.'
Again he said, 'It is I.'
Then, knowing that she was dead, he kissed her on the mouth. And through the long watches of the night the cat purred on his knee, tightening and relaxing her padded claws, until the sky paled above the Street of the Four Winds.”
― The King in Yellow
Again he said, 'It is I.'
Then, knowing that she was dead, he kissed her on the mouth. And through the long watches of the night the cat purred on his knee, tightening and relaxing her padded claws, until the sky paled above the Street of the Four Winds.”
― The King in Yellow
“I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
Yakub’s 2024 Year in Books
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