Deified, Painting By J-Edward-Neill

Photo by Álvaro Herrero

The bells and other poems - Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Dulac, ill. - 1912 - via Internet Archive

“The answer is not coming. I have to find an arbitrary point inside the spell of waiting, the open absence, and tear myself away. Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.”

— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

‏الكل يسبح في حمام دماءٍ والكون بطياته يلزم ما أُملى عليه أن يكون ماهيته الحقيقية، قاسٍ كالفلاذ.

“To live is to exist within time. To remember is to negate time.”

— Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“I can read you like a book and because the thing about a beloved book, if it’s a good one, is that it shifts like music; you think you know it, you’ve read it so many times, of course you know it, of course the pleasure of it is in how well you know it, but then you hear, in the background, the thing you never heard in it before, and with the turn of a page you see a combination of words you know you’ve never seen before, you thought you knew this book but it dazzles you with the different book it is, yet again, and not just that but the different person you have become, the different person you are now, reading it again, and you, my love, are an excellent book for me, and then us both together, which takes some talent with rhythm, but luckily we are quite talented at reading each other.”

— Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories

Augusto De Luca, “Bianco e Nero”, 1983