Sublime

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But as is so often the case with men who have made it like this, he was arrogant and self-righteous.

Holding the wok, I looked at her. Then I looked at the box of tissues and the package of toilet paper. I had no idea what she was trying to say.

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

“In ancient times people weren’t simply male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. S

I mean, the world’s full of things we can’t explain, and somebody’s got to fill that vacuum. Better to have somebody who isn’t boring than somebody who is. Right? Like Mr. Honda, for example.”

Perched on the roof’s TV antenna, a single pigeon lent its monotonous cries to the scene.

Tant que je parvenais à vivre ma vie quotidienne en sorte que chacun de mes ouvrages soit en progrès sur le précédent, mes lecteurs accepteraient volontiers la vie que je m’étais choisie – quelle qu’elle soit. N’était-ce pas mon obligation, en tant que romancier, et la plus haute de mes priorités ? Mon opinion à ce sujet n’a pas changé au cours des