April 2012
37 posts
rileykilo-deactivated20120609 asked: your words are intoxicating. i often find myself lost when i read your stories.
Blue-Square Bells
We’ll all be bells someday- beautiful, little, ringing things with blue squares painted all over us.
“To Conner Cress and the woman who spoke to him at the Hawaii gathering tonight,...”
– Christian Tenbrook
“Reading reflects the structure of experience to the extent that we must suspend...”
– The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach - Wolfgang Iser
And I Think You Love It
I think every writer is a little schizophrenic. I think we have to be. I’ve spent my entire life being a little bit of everyone at some point. I’ve seen a little bit of everything. I’ve felt a little bit of everything, but I’ve never completely been anything. And I guess I just don’t know whether that’s magnificent or utterly miserable. That’s the point of...
“There comes a time when emotions are swallowed whole into disappearance, and God...”
– Christian Tenbrook
Selection from Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest
This isn’t quite an accurate depiction of Red Harvest, but it demonstrates fully Dashiell Hammett’s talent. I have grown very fond of this book. For reference, the narrator is a detective brought into a town called Personville to clean out its crooks. In this selection, he is describing a dream he had after drinking a good amount of gin and laudanum.
“I dreamed I was sitting...
“As a result, the mark of the writer is reduced to nothing more than the...”
– What is An Author? by Michel Foucault
“Don Willsson’s gone to sit on the right hand of God, if God don’t...”
– Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
“Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us.
Not everything which...”
– Alain De Botton, from The Consolations of Philosophy (via sacredthoughts)
“Aren’t you ever struck by the fact that you have to stay alive?”
