"The nostalgic isn't stuck in the past, they're caught in an antechamber to one side, neither fully immersed in memory nor living in the present." (57)
"Dream life estranges us from the self we think we understand and choose to present in public. The conscious mind is whispered to nightly by a bad Google Translator." (91)
"No matter how far across the world you move, the one place from which you can never escape is your own flesh and blood." (26-27)
ReplyDelete"The fallow field is as necessary to the farmer as the one filled with crops." (34)
ReplyDelete"The nostalgic isn't stuck in the past, they're caught in an antechamber to one side, neither fully immersed in memory nor living in the present." (57)
ReplyDelete"Love, for example, is an index of limitation: between the point where I end and you begin there is only interstitial space, limbo." (82)
ReplyDelete"Fear is a by-product of the unknown, but so too is promise." (89)
ReplyDelete"Dream life estranges us from the self we think we understand and choose to present in public. The conscious mind is whispered to nightly by a bad Google Translator." (91)
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