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Da jeg endelig oppdaget litteraturen, fikk dette behovet for ensomhet en mening. I dag lar jeg meg stadig oftere innhente av følelsen av at det er utelukkende når jeg skriver, det vil si i det skrevne, eller når jeg leser, det vil si det leste, at mitt sanne jeg kommer til syne, eller til uttrykk. Det er bare da jeg greier å unnslippe opplevelsen av ikke å være i stand til å finne meg til rette, uansett hvor jeg måtte befinne meg. Mitt eget selskap oppleves som mindre påtrengende.

“Suppose for a moment the claims about pain’s ineffability are historically specific and ideological, that pain is widely declared inarticulate for the reason that we are not supposed to share a language for how we really feel.”

Historien er ikke noe som tilhører fortiden.Historien finnes inne i vår bevissthet, og kanskje også i vår ubevissthet, det er den varme strømmen av levende blod som motstandsløst bringes videre fra en genreasjon til den neste.

Ofte er det en enkeltsetning som slår meg i bakken. Det ande overser, kan være det vi legger merke til. Og omvendt. Som da du så meg i øynene og sa: Du kommer til å gjøre noen veldig lykkelig. Det tok meg et sekund å forstå hva den setningen betydde. At den betydde: noen - men ikke meg.

“Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait.The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other fish, and they'll hook onto it. Then you're on your way. Soon there are more and more and more fragments, and the whole thing emerges. But it starts with desire.”

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”

Hvilket ord skal ut?

1. BESKYTTE
   a) dekke
   b) omfavne
   c) glorifsere
   d) bevokte
   e) overvåke

And bad stays. Bad doesn’t go away. You bury bad, it digs itself out. You throw bad in the middle of the ocean, it comes back at you like a tidal wave.

Å befinne seg i et hull, på bunnen av et hull, i en nesten total ensomhet, og oppdage at det kun er skrivingen som kan redde en. Å ikke ha noe som helst tema for en bok, ingen ide til en bok, det er å befinne seg, nok en gang, foran en bok. En enorm tomhet. En mulig bok.

duene finnes; drømmene, dukkene
dreperne finnes; duene, duene;
dis, dioxin og dagene: dagene
finnes: dagene døden; og diktene
finnes: diktene, dagene, døden

"But how do you fight it?" Conor asked, his voice rough. "How do you fight all the different stuff inside?"
By speaking the truth, the monster said. As you spoke it just now."

"Stories don't always have happy endings."
This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”

He was crouched in the septic tank watching this and he found it very pleasing. He saw in it an aspect of himself, of his part in things. He watched the boy’s mum mashing a hedgehog, turning panic stricken animal into watery blood-spike soup, and he loved it very much, same as Mrs Lartan stamping on a poisoned mouse to finish it off, same as John and Oliver shooting Jackdaws at the tip, same as Jean drowning wasps in her jam trap. One day as good as any in the human war against others

Og science fiction hjelper oss å utforske aktuelle, dagsaktuelle, problemstillinger. Den sier: sett at ... tenk om .. og prøver å vise oss konsekvensen av våre valg. Det er altså bare tilsynelatende at slik fiksjon foregår i fremtiden. Det er naturligvis oss selv - vårt her og nå - den vil fortelle om.

Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other actives that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, the need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy."

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster in Marys novel. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein IS the monster in Marys novel.