Josh

“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards. —Astronomer Fred Hoyle”
― Greg Ross, Futility Closet: An Idler's Miscellany of Compendious Amusements

“Evidently, rigging cables is therapy for the Swiss: or part of their theology. What was it that he used to say? A balanced arc between mountain rows / as servant to his master shows / the power of besieged belief / in something something something, something something something-something to do with ducks, or rainbows.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“The human body lives in the mind of one who possesses a human body, and to live inside the human body possessed of the mind that perceives another human body is to live in a world of others.”
― Paul Auster, Sunset Park: A Novel

“They would go about town sighing and talking to themselves. "I love you," they would say to the imagined beloved, though it might have appeared to someone else that they were speaking to a snow shovel or an egg crate.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale