Blog0matique » Book Bits http://www.blogomatique.com My own personal soapbox Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing http://www.blogomatique.com/2008/09/20/the-girls-guide-to-hunting-and-fishing/ http://www.blogomatique.com/2008/09/20/the-girls-guide-to-hunting-and-fishing/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:36:18 +0000 brandie http://www.blogomatique.com/2008/09/20/the-girls-guide-to-hunting-and-fishing/ “He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.”
~Melissa Bank

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People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.

None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I’d retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating that something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.

Quel’ che tu si i’ sev’, qul’ che i’ son’ a’devand’.
(What you are I was, what I am you will be.)
-Neapolitan Proverb

House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski

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  • We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

    • by Eric Hoffer

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    2,000 years of Christianity and what do you end up with? squad-car radios trying to hold rotting shit together, and what else? tons of wars, little air raids, muggers in streets, knifings, so many insane that you forget it, you just let them run the streets in policeman’s uniforms or out of them.

    by Charles Bukowski

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