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The Plague
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The manager of the hotel can talk of nothing else. But he has a personal grievance, too; that dead rats should be found in the elevator of a three-star hotel seems to him the end of all things. To console him, I said: ‘But, you know,
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“Whether true or errant, our loves make us what we are; so if we are what we desire, history is the convoluted record of our loves in all their magnificent and ignoble forms.”
― The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
― The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
“For rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“The Giver shrugged. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.” He thought for a moment. “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― The Giver
― The Giver
“Under capitalism, money occupies the ontological throne from which God has been evicted.”
― The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
― The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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