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I wasn’t trying to solve the scene or force an ending. I was simply doing what the moment seemed to call for, based on the moments right before. It was good partly because it was so little. It was vulnerable and without an agenda.
“Diana Ahuja had dutifully read Sontag; she had a Tom of Finland coffee-table book; she’d shaken her stuff to the Village People now and then: it was hardly a revelation to her that the machismo of the military was camp.”
― The Book of Elsewhere
― The Book of Elsewhere
“I told you,” he had said. “I don’t want to die. What I want is mortality, and that’s not the same thing.”
― The Book of Elsewhere
― The Book of Elsewhere
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Well, you think, you have the answers to everything right here. But how do you even know where to start? How do you know what questions to spend your time on, when every sliver of information, every history-shattering revelation he drops over vending-machine coffee or idly while you draw his blood, throws up its own infinite library of further questions?”
― The Book of Elsewhere
― The Book of Elsewhere
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