Ecomann

“To the East: ibis and crocodiles found him pedantic — the flâneur was driven forward by opium-fueled theological caprices. A pack of gods clutched him. The pyramids, hospice of the dead. He dreamed up the abominable crocodile head and the turbaned Malay, delighting in the sickness and horror of original matter, deposits of which could be traced back to the stars.”
― Fleur Jaeggy, These Possible Lives

“Tuberculars and syphilitics, there’s the history of art in Europe—the public, the social, tuberculosis, or the private, the shameful, syphilis.”
― Mathias Énard, Compass

“I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]”
― Ernest Hemingway

“These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon