“وحدتك الآن، هناك، في عليائك
،ليست وحيدة
،إنها تعج بالسكان
بالأشياء والكائنات المرئية أبداً
والتي تؤرخها كل يوم
مانحاً إياها عمراً للمستقبل.
أنت في وحدتك
بلد مزدحم.”
―
،ليست وحيدة
،إنها تعج بالسكان
بالأشياء والكائنات المرئية أبداً
والتي تؤرخها كل يوم
مانحاً إياها عمراً للمستقبل.
أنت في وحدتك
بلد مزدحم.”
―
“All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.”
― Love Remains
― Love Remains
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
― Slowness
― Slowness
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