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“In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung. A Mexican girl, trying to hear one of these through snarling static from the bus’s motor, hummed along as if she would remember it always, tracing post horns and hearts with a fingernail, in the haze of her breath on the window.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“and, sometimes,
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion—
a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger.”
― House of Light
from a lifetime ago
and another country
such a willing and lilting companion—
a song
made so obviously for me.
At what unknowable cost.
And by a stranger.”
― House of Light
“Come to Elfland,' the troll said.
The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own home.
'N-no,' said the child.
'Why not?' said the troll.
'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home.”
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own home.
'N-no,' said the child.
'Why not?' said the troll.
'Mother made a jam roll this morning,' said the child. And she walked on gravely home.”
― The King of Elfland's Daughter
“It is at once imaginative and metaphysical,—in short, Greek.”
― Billy Budd, Sailor
― Billy Budd, Sailor
“We Communists do not like the expression, “labor dispute”. It suggests a disagreement among people on an equal basis. It suggests a friendly bickering of parties to an agreement who happen to disagree on a certain point. It suggests an amicable and perfectly lovely settlement of mutual grievances. What a false and misleading notion! There are no labor disputes. There is the wish of the capitalist to press some more sweat and blood out of the workers, and there is the wish of the workers to fight their enemy, who feeds on them.”
― Why Communism?: Plain Talks on Vital Problems
― Why Communism?: Plain Talks on Vital Problems
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