Anna

“I talk with the authority of failure.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They flickered against the ceiling.
And when all the world came back
And the light crept up between the shutters,
And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,
You had such a vision of the street.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

“this sense: the act of thinking, looking, and talking about what you see changes what you know and see. After this labor, now you can, finally, see.”
― Alva Noë, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

“Combustion is the hidden principle behind every artefact we create. The making of a fish-hook, manufacture of a china cup, or production of a television programme, all depend on the same process of combustion. Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn