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Let the River Stand

by Vincent O'Sullivan

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Apr 01, 2026 03:35PM

“I sat at my ease, even somnolently, as I steered with one finger and slowly drove through Berlin, down quiet, cold, whispering streets; and so it went on and on, until I noticed that I had left Berlin behind. The colors of the day were reduced to a mere two: black (the pattern of the bare trees, the asphalt) and whitish (the sky, the patches of snow). It continued, my sleepy transportation.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

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“The tomatoes were wet and wonderfully red in the darkness.They flashed on and off like the little light bulbs on fir trees or around windows at Christmas time. The numberless trembling red fruits, trailing sparks, were just like fish with luminous teeth swimming in the dark sea.”
― Ryū Murakami, Almost Transparent Blue

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“She felt like fastening little labels on the furniture: Lady Louise Carrington Lounge Chair, Last used August 1923. Not for the benefit of posterity: but to remove her own self into another world, another realm of existence.”
― D.H. Lawrence, St. Mawr / The Man Who Died

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“He is full of purpose, but void of the quality of mind which accomplishes purpose.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge on Shakespeare

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“Biologically developed to be conscious of our existence, we treat our perceived identities and the identity of the world around us as if they required a literate decipherment, as if everything in the universe were represented in a code that we are supposed to learn and understand. Human societies are based on this assumption: that we are, up to a point, capable of understanding the world in which we live.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor

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