Mattschratz

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment.”
― Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Agustín había escrito que Jesús es la vía recta que nos salva del laberinto circular en que andan los impíos;”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Cuentos completos

“Because everybody on the school board, and the railroad, and the PTA and paper mill had to be somebody’s mother or father, whether really or as a member of a category; and there was a point at which the reflex to their covering warmth, protection, effectiveness against bad dreams, bruised heads and simple loneliness took over and made worthwhile anger with them impossible.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner