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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
“As if she were a painter who had just emerged from an abstract phase, now, without becoming figurative, she had entered a new realism. In this realism each thing at the market had its own importance, connected to a whole — but what was the whole? For as long as she didn't know, she turned her attention to objects and shapes, as if whatever existed were part of an exhibition of painting and sculpture.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“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
“It is my mood that chooses the words for me. I have a mood. There is a lot you can do with such a thing. It can select words from the whole lexical palette, it can call language a palette, it can give things colors, even when they have no colors. I talk to no one, but my world acquires more and more details, I pluck words from a world with many voices, from a mood that lends color, that rubs off. But lending color to things takes up space. The palette overflows with hues. Too many words pour in, the day becomes heavier, slower, comes to a halt.”
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“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
“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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