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“Jack failed to understand Peter's excitement. Why, exactly, was he dancing? Because he was dissatisfied about something? Because he was happy? Or because it was at least better than killing himself?...
What exactly did Peter believe in, wondered Jack in his transparency, watching Peter's body dancing, glinting, in the light of the bonfire. Had it all been lies, then - what Peter had once told him of the misery that settled on him every night like a heavy, sodden wad of cotton? Why, when solitude howling like the sea bestrode the gaudy lights of the nocturnal city, should one proceed to dance?
That was the point, Jack himself was convinced, at which everything stopped. He, at least, had stopped. And then, little by little, he had become transparent....”
― Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
What exactly did Peter believe in, wondered Jack in his transparency, watching Peter's body dancing, glinting, in the light of the bonfire. Had it all been lies, then - what Peter had once told him of the misery that settled on him every night like a heavy, sodden wad of cotton? Why, when solitude howling like the sea bestrode the gaudy lights of the nocturnal city, should one proceed to dance?
That was the point, Jack himself was convinced, at which everything stopped. He, at least, had stopped. And then, little by little, he had become transparent....”
― Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
“A lyric poet of twenty might manage it, but I am
twenty no longer, and have never been a poet at any
rate.”
― Sun and Steel
twenty no longer, and have never been a poet at any
rate.”
― Sun and Steel
“Irritation and contempt were, after all, not things one felt for people far removed from oneself.”
― Hunchback
― Hunchback
“He seemed familiar somehow. Like someone who should have been mine.”
― Satellite Love
― Satellite Love
“When you think about it, there must be all kinds of things cluttering up the world which are borderline unnecessary. Maybe the entire human race is unnecessary. The world we live in has no meaning at all.”
― If Cats Disappeared from the World
― If Cats Disappeared from the World
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