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"Red: I don’t know how to describe how I see the world. I don’t have anything to compare it with. I could say that I see it how it is, but I know too much for that. Like—what’s it called, the thing with the shadows on the wall of the cave? Plato?
Malhar: You are a disturbing combination of erudition and instability.
Red: Oh yes. I disturb even myself." — Jun 17, 2026 05:55AM
"Red: I don’t know how to describe how I see the world. I don’t have anything to compare it with. I could say that I see it how it is, but I know too much for that. Like—what’s it called, the thing with the shadows on the wall of the cave? Plato?
Malhar: You are a disturbing combination of erudition and instability.
Red: Oh yes. I disturb even myself." — Jun 17, 2026 05:55AM
“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. Some people say that a sunrise is a miracle, because it is somewhat mysterious and often very beautiful, but other people say it is simply a fact of life, because it happens every day and far too early in the morning. Some people say that a telephone is a miracle, because it sometimes seems wondrous that you can talk with somebody who is thousands of miles away, and other people say it is merely a manufactured device fashioned out of metal parts, electronic circuitry, and wires that are very easily cut. And some people say that sneaking out of a hotel is a miracle, particularly if the lobby is swarming with policemen, and other people say it is simply a fact of life, because it happens every day and far too early in the morning. So you might think that there are so many miracles in the world that you can scarcely count them, or that there are so few that they are scarcely worth mentioning, depending on whether you spend your mornings gazing at a beautiful sunset or lowering yourself into a back alley with a rope made of matching towels.”
― The Carnivorous Carnival
― The Carnivorous Carnival
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