Gregory’s Reviews > The Book of Disquiet > Status Update

Completed the ‘Book’ part of the book; incompleted as Soares would have it. On to the Anthology next? Or to dip in and out?

Meagre pages, unrelenting lack of concentration tonight - yet —

“Sheets of frosted glass always stood between me and life.”

“... nor do I know whether the sound of a discordant word or the rhythm of an incidental phrase might not be diverting me from the already hazy point, from the already stowed sensation, thereby absolving me from thinking and saying, like long voyages designed to distract us.”

“Beset by lucid and free associations of ideas, images and words, I say what I imagine I‘m feeling as much as what I’m really feeling, and I’m unable to distinguish between the suggestions of my soul and the fruits born of images that fell from my soul to the ground...”

“The love of absurdity and paradox is the animal happiness of the sad... those incapable of joy and enthusiasm do somersaults in their minds and perform, in their own cold way, the warm gestures of life.”

Getting into the chunky bit.

Getting into the chunky bit.