Dragonfly

“i'm too fearful of the professors for whom art is only a derivative of philosophical and theoretical trends" (The Art of the Novel, 32)”
― Kundera

“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only poesis. no recording. only constructing.”
― Robert Scholes, Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future

“The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“humor can only exist when people are still capable of recognizing some border between the important and the unimportant. and nowadays this border has become unrecognizable.”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality