The War was over, except for some one like Mrs. Foxcroft at the Embassy last night, eating her heart out because that nice boy was killed and now the old Manor House must go to a cousin; or Lady Bexborough who opened a bazaar, they said, with the telegram in her hand, John, her favorite, killed; but it was over; thank Heaven—over. —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
The War was over, however her war against pneumonia was far from over since she was having shortness of breath whenever she rushed up the street to their house following the flurry of skirts her friends wearing, nor she would be going top back to school after losing a year at the hospital, her mother said otherwise but Nihal thought it would be shameful to join younger students in her former school; no the war wasn’t over, it just changed shape.
“However, just for the heck of it, he wiggled his bent Sidney’s out of his coat pocket, thumbed to ostrich comma male-female, old-young, sick-well, mint-used, and inspected the prices.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“If being in revolt against a corrupt society constitutes being immature, then Philip Marlowe is extremely immature” (Chandler, 1951).”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“There is absolutely no way for a man of this age to acquire a decent affluence in life without to some degree corrupting himself, without accepting the cold, clear fact that success is always and everywhere a racket.”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“When the jay pushes off into air, it leaves on my skin the firm live impression of its departure.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“The visual manifestation of the utterances is such that the thoughts—not the words, because there are no words—the thoughts appear as crystalline blocks in the darkness.”
― The Singularity
― The Singularity
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