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stood there for a while, feeling as if she had swallowed a sparkling sliver of light.
“And in time there will come a generation that has got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free from taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.”
― The Machine Stops
― The Machine Stops
“In a world of perfect utility, we, too, will be forced to vanish.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“She has seen dieback across the West. Aspens are withering. Grazed on by everything with hooves, cut off from rejuvenating fire, whole groves are vanishing. Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Everything owns a sound, loud or soft. When sound hits a thing, it comes back an echo.
Mumbi said -Everything sends back a sound, however soft. If you listen to an echo with care, you can tell where it is coming from.
The ear is the eye of the soul. It sorts out the sound and the echo and tells us what makes the sound and where it is coming from”
― The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
Mumbi said -Everything sends back a sound, however soft. If you listen to an echo with care, you can tell where it is coming from.
The ear is the eye of the soul. It sorts out the sound and the echo and tells us what makes the sound and where it is coming from”
― The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi
“I’m a widowed house, cloistered in itself, haunted by shy and furtive ghosts. I’m always in the next room, or they are, and the trees loudly rustle all around me. I wander and find; I find because I wander.
And during all of this I walk down the street, a wandering sleephead, a stray leaf. Some slow wind has swept me off the ground and I drift, like the end of twilight, among the details of the landscape. My eyelids weigh heavy on my dragging feet. Because I’m walking I feel like sleeping. My mouth is shut as if to seal my lips.
I walk the way a ship sinks.
from "The Faceless Biography”
― The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
And during all of this I walk down the street, a wandering sleephead, a stray leaf. Some slow wind has swept me off the ground and I drift, like the end of twilight, among the details of the landscape. My eyelids weigh heavy on my dragging feet. Because I’m walking I feel like sleeping. My mouth is shut as if to seal my lips.
I walk the way a ship sinks.
from "The Faceless Biography”
― The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
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