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along which orange-brown cafés are nestled, strung with tiny lights, lights that bob with any slight breeze, there in the cafés that nightly ring with the sound of the laughter of those relieved to find themselves made briefly joyful.
“Sometimes, it seemed like the authors were treating language like it was its own creature. A creature that fed, grew, died, and was reborn again. Language was not a tool to them, more like an occasionally useful parasite.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“Psych is a mortal whom the god Eros falls in love with. She is given ambrosia on Mount Olympus and weds Eros as a god.”
“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
― Toward Eternity
“I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?”
― Toward Eternity
“Was not every piece of music “4’33,” never a rendition sounding alike, with each element of chance affecting the dynamics, the receptions, the discovery of the music in the room? Was not the machinery of change as much part of the music as the musician?”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
“To write a story about someone is to create someone.”
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― Toward Eternity
“I looked at poetry to see how it constructs the idea of a person… Poets are artists who write selves into being…. Poetry makes us all into magicians.”
― Toward Eternity
― Toward Eternity
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