Quote for Today: Vladimir Nabokov
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
The October Country …that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, …
Quote for Today: William H. Gass
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the …
Quote for Today: Shel Silverstein
Masks She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And …
Quote for Today: H.G. Wells
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there was a feeling of being in motion. Aomame was ceaselessly moving through time and space. It didn’t …
Creativity and Eternity: The Aboriginal Dreamtime
Is the emphasis on a rational grasp of reality destroying the creativity and insight that come from dreams and myth? The indigenous peoples of Australia have fantastic Creation myths, peppered …
Quote for Today: Viktor E. Frankl
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since …
Quote for Today: Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. —Elias Canetti
Dreams of the Unreachable: Thoughts on Gabriel García Márquez’s Eyes of a Blue Dog
Consciousness is the lens through which we interpret reality. But are we searching subconsciously for a reality that matches our dreams? “Don’t open that door,” she said. “The hallway is full …