"The fact is you have it, the task is to want it."
— Dessa, “Sadie Hawkins”
Being that a gentleman traveled to a distant land in search of inspiration, precariousness, and an increased development of self.
Ask
May 3, 2012
May 1, 2012
McCarthy
“The child’s face is curiously untouched behind the scars, the eyes oddly innocent. They fight with fists, with feet, with bottles or knives. All races, all breeds. Men whose speech sounds like the grunting of apes. Men from lands so far and queer that standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself vindicated.”
“Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, twice
Only a few pages in and already. How deep is my love for this man.
April 5, 2012
“And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
A haunting, gorgeous book.
