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As if their home cemetery in some way still did exist, in a land where you could somehow walk, and not need the East San Narciso Freeway, and bones still could rest in peace, nourishing ghosts of dandelions, no one to plow them up. As if
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“There was Jaones Ergela, or Crazy Joh, who had lost his mind from loneliness in the mountains and had not seen it coming soon enough to shoot himself, as the others like him had done.”
― Sweet Promised Land
― Sweet Promised Land
“Take care, Owen. To remember everything is a form of madness.”
― Translations
― Translations
“This is an Art project, not a Peace project.”
― Underworld
― Underworld
“What was worse, she was also convinced that, with his habit of talking to strangers, he would be led astray in Paris, and, as she put it, get knocked over the head by some villainous Apache, and as a result never make it to the Pyrenees.”
― Sweet Promised Land
― Sweet Promised Land
“The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
Austin’s 2025 Year in Books
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