Data Queue

“Yet as we travel deeper into the strange world of the story, the feeling we get is of being understood - which is odd when you think about it, because at school learning is based on whether or not we understand what we are reading. In fact it is the story (or the poem) that is understanding us.

Books read us back to ourselves.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Not everything about the Wind was bad. Sometimes it blew through the little voids and crevices of the Statues and caused them to sing and whistle in surprising ways; I had never known the Statues to have voices before and it made me laugh for sheer delight.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“The manager: Do you understand?
Leading Man: I’m hanged if I do.
The Manager: Neither do I. But let’s get on
with it. It’s sure to be a glorious failure anyway.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author