SA4QE - The Slickman A4 Quotation Event
“What most people take to be reality is a load of old nonsense invented by not very inventive minds.”
"Trubba not"
What passes for reality seems to me mostly a load of old rubbish invented by not very inventive minds.
It was an earthy dance, nothing of it moved up into the air, it was as if earth had formed itself into a man and the man was dancing himself slowly back into the earth. Bembel Rudzuk danced more and more slowly and more and more deeply until the body I saw before me stood motionless like the nymphal shell left behind by a dragonfly. But Bembel Rudzuk, unlike the dragonfly, seemed not to have flown away into the air but to have danced himself out of his body into the earth.
The shell of Bembel Rudzuk opened its eyes and Bembel Rudzuk looked out of them.
“Was this your dream?” I said. “Were you dancing your dream?”
“Earth,” he said. “I was dancing earth.”
“Are you awake?” I said.
“Which is the dream?” he said.
Winter is always either just ahead or just behind.
From Kleinzeit (Novel, 1974) | Read more
“The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.”
Where are we? I said.
In the black.
This isn't black, it's red.
Sometimes the black is red.
Hear the earth say itself, say itself ponderous with evening, turning to the night.
