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“Pe acești îngeri i-am chemat. Și tuturor, făpturi mari și frumoase, le-am vorbit blând, în șoaptă, ca să nu-i sperii și am vrut să le povestesc mari întâmplări , dar ochii lor erau goi și nu înțelegeau ce le spuneam și nici nu păreau să audă și tăceau. Și atunci, văzându-i așa, le-am dat semne de bunăvoință și de dragoste și, mâhnit, am înhămat caii negri la carul de umbră și i-am îmbiat, prin semne, să urce, și m-am uitat după ei cum plecau.”
― Norii
― Norii
“But isn’t that the thing you were recommending?” I asked. “Dying every moment.”
“But Henry hadn’t died. That’s the whole point. He’d merely left the clockwork running and gone somewhere else.”
“Gone where?”
“God knows. Into some kind of infantile burrow in his subconscious, I suppose. Outside, for all to see and hear, was that stupendous clockwork monkey, that undiminished blaze of intellectual power. Inside there lurked the miserable little creature who still needed flattery and reassurance and sex and a womb-substitute—the creature who would have to face the music on Henry’s death-bed. That was still frantically alive and unprepared, by any preliminary dying, totally unprepared for the decisive moment. Well, the decisive moment is over now and whatever remains of poor old Henry is probably squeaking and gibbering in the streets of Los Alamos, or maybe around the bed of his widow and her new husband. And of course nobody pays any attention, nobody gives a damn. Quite rightly. Let the dead bury their dead. And now you want to go.”
― The Genius & The Godess
“But Henry hadn’t died. That’s the whole point. He’d merely left the clockwork running and gone somewhere else.”
“Gone where?”
“God knows. Into some kind of infantile burrow in his subconscious, I suppose. Outside, for all to see and hear, was that stupendous clockwork monkey, that undiminished blaze of intellectual power. Inside there lurked the miserable little creature who still needed flattery and reassurance and sex and a womb-substitute—the creature who would have to face the music on Henry’s death-bed. That was still frantically alive and unprepared, by any preliminary dying, totally unprepared for the decisive moment. Well, the decisive moment is over now and whatever remains of poor old Henry is probably squeaking and gibbering in the streets of Los Alamos, or maybe around the bed of his widow and her new husband. And of course nobody pays any attention, nobody gives a damn. Quite rightly. Let the dead bury their dead. And now you want to go.”
― The Genius & The Godess
“Singurătate, pulchra soror, aș vrea să-ți dau inima mea, dar tu ești inima mea, Soledad. Aș vrea să-ți dau amintirile mele, dar amintirile le avem împreună, aceleași, pentru că tu m-ai însoțit mereu. Te simțeam uneori ca o lumină răsfrântă de apele mării, mi-ai fost ceață și noapte, mi-ai fost putere. Mai ții minte desigur răsăritul acela pustiu, obosit ca un amurg. Sau după amiaza albă când moartea a încercat să-mi sfâșie inima cu gheara ei de cristal și când a biruit iubirea, lăsându-mă durerii și lumii. Ape limpezi se preling ca niște lacrimi negre pe piatra neagră a unei stânci, așa te simt uneori. Și te mai simt uneori purificată de orice întâmplări, formă pură. Soledad, mai e puțin și o să plecăm împreună, tineri cum am fost, peste vârste, mereu.”
― Norii
― Norii
“How impossibly crude our language is! If you don’t mention the physiological correlates of emotion, you’re being false to the given facts. But if you do mention them, it sounds as though you were trying to be gross and cynical. Whether it’s passion or the desire of the moth for the star, whether it’s tenderness or adoration or romantic yearning—love is always accompanied by events in the nerve endings, the skin, the mucous membranes, the glandular and erectile tissues. Those who don’t say so are liars. Those who do are labelled as pornographers. It’s the fault, of course, of our philosophy of life; and our philosophy of life is the inevitable by-product of a language that separates in idea what in actual feet is always inseparable. It separates and at the same time it evaluates. One of the abstractions is ‘good,’ and the other is ‘bad.’ Judge not that ye be not judged. But the nature of language is such that we can’t help judging. What we need is another set of words. Words that can express the natural togetherness of things. Muco-spiritual, for example, or dermatocharity. Or why not mastonoetic? Why not viscerosophy? But translated, of course, out of the indecent obscurity of a learned language into something you could use in everyday speech or even in lyrical poetry.”
― The Genius and the Goddess
― The Genius and the Goddess
“Sunt pe pământ (pentru a nu mai spune despre ce e dincolo de el) atâtea alte ceruri, altfel, cu alte constelații, cu întâmplări necunoscute nouă, nopți albe, aurore boreale, lumina verde, norii tropicali. În ce s-a scris aici și-n cum s-a scris se mai păstrează însă amintirea unor stări de lucruri, astăzi pentru mulți trecute, când în privința asta semănam cu niște arbori. Arborii nu se duc niciunde, arborii nu se urcă-n lună: așteaptă doar ca luna să le treacă printre ramuri. Să zicem că această carte a fost scrisă de un plop. Sau de un nuc. Ce spune despre mări, doar a visat, brodând ce i-au povestit norii și luna, păsările, vântul.”
― Norii
― Norii
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