“-So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking;
-Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;
-Aren't we all, I said;-”
― The Lost Scrapbook
-Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;
-Aren't we all, I said;-”
― The Lost Scrapbook
“-- Buddhism needs its fucking Nietzsche --”
― The Easy Chain
― The Easy Chain
“When the sun was rising I doubted its value, as it set I lamented its loss.”
― The Easy Chain
― The Easy Chain
“And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.”
― Flee
― Flee
“—Now please please no please don’t tell me now Crow Books, too…? I loved that place, the paperbacks shoved behind the other paperbacks on the metal racks because there wasn’t space, the mostly sense that they just want to have all those nice books in there for you, waiting for you if you want - need - to discover something, and the bad lighting, and the rumply chair with its bottom rupturing stuff, and Mr. Shelling and his rectangular mustache and no employee recommendations and discovering Denis Johnson and Virgin Suicides and I just can’t, I can’t—”
― Flee
― Flee
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