What would Thoreau have made of Las Vegas: its lights and rackets, its trash and daydreams, its projections and hollow façades?
“A graveyard of gods spreads out before us as we sit on our high seats and look out over the sands of time, littered with the half-sunk and crumbling visages of every Odin and Ozymandias.”
― Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods
― Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods
“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it might have been broken and stuck together again, or like a gun no one knows is loaded.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“I am a jug filled with water both magic and plain; I have only to lean over and a stream of beautiful thoughts flows out of me.”
― Too Loud a Solitude
― Too Loud a Solitude
“Nietzsche’s diagnosis of deicide mutated into a malignant iconoclasm, not in the name of strength and life-affirming values as he had hoped, but in a “Harrison Bergeron”-style handicapping of all aspirational ideals.”
― Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods
― Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods
“There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real.”
― Libra
― Libra
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