Avery Rota

“Il cielo mi appariva viola, con una strana nota di gravità a dominarlo: il cielo, quel cielo, mi sembrava premesse con una forza inaudita sulla città, era livido e pesante, come se non ce la facesse più a stare là sopra e da un momento all'altro dovesse cedere. E poi lo schianto a terra delle stelle e della luna, corpi celesti infiniti tra le automobili parcheggiate in strada. Quel cielo era il mio cuore che aveva ripreso a battere all'impazzata.”
― Aldo Nove, La vita oscena

“The beauty of sand, in other words, belonged to death. it was the beauty of death that ran through the magnificence of its ruins and its great power of destruction”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“The change in the sand corresponded to a change in himself. Perhaps, along with the water in the sand, he had found a new self.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“People listen to news only to feel reassured. Because however great the news of catastrophe they hear, those listening are still perfectly alive. The really big news is the ultimate news announcing the end of the world, I suppose. Of course, everybody wants to hear that. For then one does not need to abandon the world alone. When I think about it, I feel the reason that I was addicted was my eagerness not to miss this ultimate broadcast. But as long as the news goes on, it will never get to the end. Thus news constitutes the announcement that it is still not the end of the world. The following trifling clichés are merely abridgments.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Box Man