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Rise is on page 309 of 510

‘I can imagine, with an almost carnal vividness, that I might be the character of a novel, moving within the reality constructed by a complex narrative, in the long waves of its style.’

- from Text 285

— Apr 24, 2025 06:44AM

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Rise is on page 437 of 510

Perhaps it is in your eyes, when my face leans into yours, that I read these impossible landscapes, these unreal tediums, these feelings that inhabit the shadows of my weariness and the caves of my disquiet. … How do I know that you’re not a part of me, … the real and essential part? And how do I know it’s not … I who am your dream instead of you being mine?

- from “Our Lady of Silence”

— Apr 26, 2025 08:04PM

Rise is on page 376 of 510

I know no pleasure like that of books, and I read very little. Books are introductions to dreams, and no introductions are necessary for one who freely and naturally enters into conversation with them.

- from Text 417

— Apr 25, 2025 07:23PM

Rise is on page 247 of 510

how can something be both paradoxical and oxymoronic

— Apr 24, 2025 01:49AM

Rise is on page 227 of 510

— Apr 10, 2025 03:54AM

Rise is on page 116 of 510

— Mar 17, 2025 01:40AM

Rise is starting

Picking this up again. But I don't remember where I left off reading this book. I will have to restart from the beginning.

— Mar 15, 2025 08:57AM