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(People can see destruction, but most of them cannot see redemption.)In my initial review I stated that this book reminded me of Marakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of The World, due to dual world building. But that is a superficial observa ...more "
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"OKboomer <=> TLDR <=> PLUR
oh, the joys of a solid voice to text program and mic. At least that is the hope as nowhere yet in the text have I seen any mention of secretaries spared the unedited logorrhea." — Jan 14, 2024 07:03AM
"OKboomer <=> TLDR <=> PLUR
oh, the joys of a solid voice to text program and mic. At least that is the hope as nowhere yet in the text have I seen any mention of secretaries spared the unedited logorrhea." — Jan 14, 2024 07:03AM
“There’s smitten and there’s smite.”
―
―
“A woman has written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting.”
―
―
“Apology
Lately, too much disturbed, you stay trailing in me
and I believe you. How could I not feel
you were misspent, there by books stacked clean on glass,
or outside the snow arriving as I am still arriving.
If the explanations amount to something, I will tell you.
It is enough, you say, that surfaces grow so distant.
Maybe you darken, already too much changed,
maybe in your house you would be content where
no incident emerges, but for smoke or glass or air,
such things held simply to be voiceless.
And if you mean me, I believe you.
Or if you should darken, this inwardness would be misspent,
and flinching I might pause, and add to these meager
incidents the words. Some books
should stay formal on the shelves.
So surely I heard you, in your complication aware,
snow holding where it might weightless rest,
and should you fold into me—trackless, misspent,
too much arranged—I might believe you
but swiftly shut, lines of smoke rising through snow,
here where it seems no good word emerges.
Though it is cold, I am aware such reluctance
could lose these blinking hours to simple safety.
Here is an inwardless purpose.
In these hours when snow shuts, it may be we empty,
amounting to something. How could I not
wait for those few words, which we might enter”
―
Lately, too much disturbed, you stay trailing in me
and I believe you. How could I not feel
you were misspent, there by books stacked clean on glass,
or outside the snow arriving as I am still arriving.
If the explanations amount to something, I will tell you.
It is enough, you say, that surfaces grow so distant.
Maybe you darken, already too much changed,
maybe in your house you would be content where
no incident emerges, but for smoke or glass or air,
such things held simply to be voiceless.
And if you mean me, I believe you.
Or if you should darken, this inwardness would be misspent,
and flinching I might pause, and add to these meager
incidents the words. Some books
should stay formal on the shelves.
So surely I heard you, in your complication aware,
snow holding where it might weightless rest,
and should you fold into me—trackless, misspent,
too much arranged—I might believe you
but swiftly shut, lines of smoke rising through snow,
here where it seems no good word emerges.
Though it is cold, I am aware such reluctance
could lose these blinking hours to simple safety.
Here is an inwardless purpose.
In these hours when snow shuts, it may be we empty,
amounting to something. How could I not
wait for those few words, which we might enter”
―
“You can’t translate something
that was never in a language
in the first place.”
―
that was never in a language
in the first place.”
―
“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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