Paul

“In memory, we find the most complete release from the narrowness of presented time and place.... The picture is one of human beings confronted by a world in which they can be masters only as they ... discover ways of escape from the complete sway of immediate circumstances. —F. C. Bartlett, Remembering”
― Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

“My own plain hand, crosshatched and whorled in a mesh of expressive lines, a life terrain, might itself be the object of a person’s study and wonder for years. A cosmology against the void.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“Veldt to scrub to fields to farms to these first tumbling houses that rise from the earth. It has been night for a long time. The hovels that encrust the river’s edge have grown like mushrooms around me in the dark.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“The last novel Brandeggen wrote—The Red Handler Lands in Trouble with the Authorities—is therefore also better understood in relation to this unused origin story, since the freedom the Red Handler has been given eventually comes back to bite him and is revoked due to either unsubmitted paperwork or the incident detailed in The Red Handler and the Out-of-Control-Urine.”
― Johan Harstad, Red Handler