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CHAPTER ONE Henri found himself looking at the sky again – a clear, black crystal dome overhead. It was difficult for the mind to conceive of hundreds of planes shattering that black crystalling silence! And suddenly, words began tumbling ...more
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“Virtue . . . is the same for men and for women.”
Antisthenes

Osip Mandelstam
“O what a threadbare life we lead,
how pitifully poor the words of joy!
All has been seen, all will be seen again,
only the moment of recognition is sweet.”
Osip Mandelstam, Poems of Osip Mandelstam

John Kennedy Toole
“I really have had little to do with them, for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Miguel Hernández
“i sink my life into your mouth,
i hear the murmurs of space,
and infinity seems
to have emptied itself over me”
Miguel Hernandez

Danielle Collobert
“how much time like this
it holds on
how much time resting
is going to start up again --- knows it --- at the edge already
the first words are waiting --- speech being reborn --- hitch still looking for its post”
Danielle Collobert, It Then

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