“Utter blankness, intolerable strain, shrieking despair, are just the essences they are, and they are unrolled and revealed to intuition like any other essences. But such intuitions, being those proper to the most brutal and rudimentary life, have a suasion in...
“I will be performing my identity on limited engagement between birth and death.” —Mat Johnson tweet If you are on Twitter, then you know that a person’s clout and social status are reflected in the proportion of followers to following. If you are...
“How does a pearl develop in an oyster? A jagged grain of sand makes its way into the oyster’s shell and makes its life unbearable. The oyster exudes slime to cover the grain of sand and the slime eventually hardens into a pearl. The oyster...
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” –Samuel Beckett, as quoted in Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale, by Art Spiegelman Dear Art Spiegelman, I just woke up from a nightmare, which was really just a silly...
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.” —from Romeo and Juliet Some Stuff I Know About Virginia Woolf...
