Joseph Geldman

“Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives.”
― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light

“There’s a reason why the story of the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring right at you. A vision of hell that twists and turns on itself and grooves to its own soundtrack. Normal rules do not apply here. Imagination then, dream, fantasy. You visit a ghetto, particularly a ghetto in West Kingston, and it immediately leaves the real to become this sort of grotesque, something out of Dante or the infernal painting of Hieronymus Bosch. It’s a rusty red chamber of hell that cannot be described so I will not try to describe it. It cannot be photographed because some parts of West Kingston, such as Rema, are in the grip of such bleak and unremitting repulsiveness that the inherent beauty of the photographic process will lie to you about just how ugly it really is.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space