The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant … Continue reading Quote for Today: George R. R. Martin
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Quote for Today: Donald Kingsbury
Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known. ―Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite Image: M.C. Escher, Belvedere, 1958 via Ωméga * with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Matt Haig
Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked … Continue reading Quote for Today: Matt Haig
Quote for Today: Francesca Lia Block
It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Francesca Lia Block
Mistrusting Creativity: Currents in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red
Why do some people mistrust creativity, while others feel it leads them to deeper faith? Is creativity inseparable from identity? To God belongs the East and the West. –- The Koran Four master illustrators have been selected to complete a secret book for the Ottoman Sultan, a book which strays from the traditional elements of Islamic … Continue reading Mistrusting Creativity: Currents in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red