“The fact is that we’re all lonely, of course. Everyone knows this, it’s almost a cliché. So yet another layer of my essential fraudulence is that I pretended to myself that my loneliness was special, that it was uniquely my fault because I was somehow especially fraudulent and hollow.”
― Good Old Neon
― Good Old Neon
“Men had it so simple. When it wasn't about Sticking It In, it was about Having The Gun, a variation that allowed them to Stick It In from a distance.”
― Vineland
― Vineland
“Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that’s burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face. It’s a long way back to sunset, a far way on to dawn, so you summon all the fool things of your life, the stupid lovely things done with people known so very well who are now so very dead – And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time...”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“*Geryon what's wrong? Jesus I hate it when you cry. What is it?*
Geryon thinks hard.
l once loved you, now I don't know you at all. He does not say this.
*I was thinking about time* -he gropes-
*you know how apart people are in time together and apart at the same time* -stops.
Herakles wipes tears from Geryon's face
with one hand. *Can't you ever just fuck and not think?* Herakles gets out of bed
and goes into the bathroom.
Then he comes back and stands at the window a long while. By the time he returns
to the bed it is getting light.
*Well Geryon just another Saturday morning me laughing and you crying,*
he says as he climbs in.
Geryon watches him pull the blanket up to his chin. *Just like the old days.*
*Just like the old days,* Geryon says too.”
― Autobiography of Red
Geryon thinks hard.
l once loved you, now I don't know you at all. He does not say this.
*I was thinking about time* -he gropes-
*you know how apart people are in time together and apart at the same time* -stops.
Herakles wipes tears from Geryon's face
with one hand. *Can't you ever just fuck and not think?* Herakles gets out of bed
and goes into the bathroom.
Then he comes back and stands at the window a long while. By the time he returns
to the bed it is getting light.
*Well Geryon just another Saturday morning me laughing and you crying,*
he says as he climbs in.
Geryon watches him pull the blanket up to his chin. *Just like the old days.*
*Just like the old days,* Geryon says too.”
― Autobiography of Red
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