Prabhat Prakash

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“When someone dies, our impulse is to flatten her out, to press her between wax paper like a leaf, or to fix her in amber like a bug. Death as capture, death as collected works. But death is a false terminus, one moment only. It seems more significant because it is the last moment, the most recent, when really it is the smallest and least telling. Life is the plumpness of all directions, of surprises and contradictions, of impulses, mistakes, duplicities, and redemptions. While the vanishing point on the horizon line is a dot, a blip, the same for us all.”
― Katherine Min, The Fetishist

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.”
― Edward Lasker