Status Updates From Levitation: Five Fictions

No notable lines this entry—I am chewing through this book.

“The dreams that rise up from couch and armchair mix and braid in the air…”

“I have no patience with figures of speech.” (61)

“Genius summons up not grotesqueries but verisimilitudes: the lifelike, the anti-magical.” (62)

“Nature does not stop to suspect itself of daily subterfuge.”

“…is there an objective “scientific interest” or is all interest a snare?” (63)

“He had rather ferocious eyes, much too shiny, like something boiling in a pot…” (45)

“But the end’s always at the end; in the meantime there’s the meantime.” (51)

“I remember that he is only interested in; it’s I who feel.” (53)

“…busy is busy but parents are parents.” (23)

“But Puttermesser discovered that in City life all rumours are True. Putative turncoats are genuine turncoats.” (29)

“She will always behold Brooklyn Bridge through its windows; also sunsets of high glory, bringing her religious pangs.” (31)

“…you cut to live not to kill.” (35)

“Your protagonist always has to be someone real, with real work-in-the-world…otherwise you fall into solipsism, narcissism, tedium, lack of appeal-to-the-common-reader; who knew what other perils.” (4)

“Feingold did not have a ‘philosophical’ mind. What he liked was event.” (7)

“If there had been a camera at the Crucifixion Christianity would collapse…Cruelty came out of the imagination..” (14)