November 2011
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Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
– William S. Burroughs
in The Ticket That Exploded (1962)
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
– Francis Scott Fitzgerald
in The Great Gatsby (1925)
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
– Vladimir Nabokov
in Pale Fire (1962)
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It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse...
– Robert Musil
in The Man without Qualities (1930-42)
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single...
– Jorge Luis Borges
in “A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz”, in The Aleph (1949) (translated by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998))
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