“Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It’s a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally.”
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“Our close reunion will create poetry. Between us we shall make a god.”
― On Wine and Hashish
― On Wine and Hashish
“I don’t care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.”
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“When the moon of mourning is set and gone.
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
― Finnegans Wake
Over Glinaduna.
Lonu nula.
Ourselves, oursouls alone.
At the site of salvocean.
And watch would the letter you’re wanting be coming may be.
And cast ashore.”
― Finnegans Wake
“The meeting of the solitary ones can happen only in solitude.”
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
― Ponderings II-VI: Black Notebooks 1931-1938
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