

“In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness

“Now I saw his lifeless state. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him. For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water. And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.”
― Min kamp 1
― Min kamp 1

“my life I love it
in the dark
under the water of my shadow music
my form
and substance lonely and blue as ever
â€� Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000)”
― The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
in the dark
under the water of my shadow music
my form
and substance lonely and blue as ever
â€� Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000)”
― The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

“There Is the Effect of Moonlight very poetic and the first time he used the telephone he yelled the reason being so he said because my friend is so very far away and if you think I'm going to tell you what else I saw you're crazy as hell”
― The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
― The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

“...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it...”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
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