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"technically done but will need to relook at annotations...ough. this is so dense" — Jul 07, 2025 08:22AM
"technically done but will need to relook at annotations...ough. this is so dense" — Jul 07, 2025 08:22AM
“The minute we deviate from simple, practical matters, the conversation lapses imperceptibly into a kind of audio link, a muted love mumble. Our communication, initially meaningful and coherent, turns into a series of fitful exchanges containing neither sentences nor information: little words and sounds meant -- I suppose -- to keep the link between us open, but which, instead, make all too clear how far apart we are.”
― On the Calculation of Volume I
― On the Calculation of Volume I
“We have grown accustomed to living with that knowledge without feeling dizzy every morning, and instead of moving around warily and tentatively, in constant amazement, we behave as if nothing has happened, take the strangeness of it all for granted and get dizzy if life shows itself as it truly is: improbable, unpredictable, remarkable.”
― On the Calculation of Volume I
― On the Calculation of Volume I
“Sasha forged through the long, senseless combinations of letters, and her hair stood on end. She imagined that somebody was repeating those sounds after her in a dark room with mirrors instead of walls, and each word, after reflecting over and over in the mirrors, finally gained meaning, but by then Sasha had moved two sections ahead, and the meaning flew away from her, like smoke from a fast-moving locomotive ...”
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“Time is discrete," he said patiently. "It's not a line from the past to the future, as we had thought before. It's more like a system of bubbles that are either vaguely connected or are completely separate from each other.”
― Vita Nostra
― Vita Nostra
“At the same time, Lori had an intuition that, once the early turbulence of the coming intimate celebrations had passed, she'd finally have the experience of the world. She was well aware, she'd finally experience in full the pain of the world. And her own pain as a mortal creature, the pain she'd learned not to feel. But she'd sometimes be swept up by an ecstasy of pure and legitimate pleasure that she could scarcely imagine. Though actually she was starting to imagine it because she felt herself smiling and also felt the kind of bashfulness you feel in the face of something that is too big. To be what you are was too big and uncontrollable.
[...] Her despair came from not even knowing where and how to start. She only knew that she'd started a new thing and could never return to her former dimensions. And she also knew that she should start modestly, in order not to get discouraged. And she knew that she should abandon forever the main road. And go down her true path which was the narrow byways.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
[...] Her despair came from not even knowing where and how to start. She only knew that she'd started a new thing and could never return to her former dimensions. And she also knew that she should start modestly, in order not to get discouraged. And she knew that she should abandon forever the main road. And go down her true path which was the narrow byways.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
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