HR BHARATI

“Reasons for Admission 1864 to 1889 Intemperance & Business Trouble Kicked in the Head by a Horse Hereditary Predisposition Ill Treatment by Husband Imaginary Female Trouble Hysteria Immoral Life Imprisonment Jealousy and Religion Laziness Marriage of Son Masturbation & Syphilis Masturbation for 30 Years Medicine to Prevent Conception Menstrual Deranged Mental Excitement Novel Reading Nymphomania Opium Habit Over Action Of The Mind”
― Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch

“This was quite the leap, since at the time insects were believed to spontaneously generate.”
― Jason Roberts, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

“. . . we hadn't even noticed when all this had been happening, the words "turning point" and "dawn of a new era" were hardly out of our mouths when precisely this critical, time-bound nature of a turning point and a dawn was rendered ludicrous as we realized that all of a sudden we were living in a new world, had entered a radically new era, and we understood none of it, because everything we had was obsolete, including our conditioned reflexes, our attempts to understand the nature of a process, how "all of this" had "consequently" proceeded from there to here, everything was as obsolete as our conviction to rely on experience, on sober rationality . . .”
― László Krasznahorkai, The World Goes On

“Life...is not a simple thread which is only extended in length, it is a large web or rather a network, from interval to interval, casts branches to the side in order to unite with networks of other order.”
― Jason Roberts, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life