jux

“Consiousness sticks language onto existence, papering over existential facts that stick out awkwardly; or it attached words to such objects like ropes whereby it can drag and fling them about as it pleases.”
― Yumiko Kurahashi, The adventures of Sumiyakist Q

“So che fucilerai Gerineldo” disse serenamente, “e non posso far nulla per impedirlo. Ma ti avverto di una cosa: non appena avrò visto il cadavere, te lo giuro sulle ossa di mio padre e di mia madre, sulla memoria di José Arcadio Buendìa, te lo giuro davanti a Dio, che ti verrò a prendere fin dove ti sarai cacciato e ti ammazzerò con le mie stesse mani.” Prima di lasciare la stanza, senza attendere risposta, concluse:
“Avrei fatto la stessa cosa se tu fossi nato con la coda di maiale.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“I love this landscape," the literary man began while they were walking through an irregular forest of pillars. "The only things here are /things/. The paint of meaning is peeled off. The things here have refused to be of any assistance at all to men.”
― Yumiko Kurahashi, The adventures of Sumiyakist Q

“Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time