“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.”
― Wyrd Sisters
Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.”
― Wyrd Sisters
“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
― A History of Reading
― A History of Reading
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
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