"England has done one thing; it has invented and established public opinion, which is an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force." --Oscar Wilde

"Man's greatest epic, his four long battles with the advancing ice of the great continental glaciers, has vanished from human memory without a trace." --Loren Eiseley

"The reality that interests me is strange and flickering and haunting." --Russell Hoban, The Medusa Frequency

To be a philosopher, to be a chessboard, to be a sunset, to be a statue, to be a poem, to be a wind, to be a leaf--not to love.

Story idea. A writer wanting to exploit his tragedy--but can't.

Why don't i get them all in the same room together, & tear me apart like Orpheus?

The hour of dawn is a place i inhabit, in my organometallic way. i know all its lights. It is a dangerous place, but a place with rules. Its walls are made of pain, but its roof is made of music. The hour of dawn borrows me, for as long as it needs, to see.

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