the secret life of pints

(warsaw via)

"When one is overwhelmed by sorrow, that sorrow cannot produce a haiku." --Otsuji, qtd in: Kenneth Yasuda, The Japanese Haiku

"Homer offered five hundred dollars to any surgeon who could crawl into the passage and cut his brother’s leg off."

Without affordances, one must either join the landscape, or quote it.

"In retrospect, it appears that Nick Joaquín was one of the best short story writers of the 20th Century. And yet despite his having written in English, he is hardly known by anyone who is not Filipino."

At the center of every strongly-held belief is a thoughtcrime, deeply buried, like a sacrificial victim secreted in the foundations of a castle.

"...so long as we fail to comprehend the inhumanity of the human, this rational-revisionary process, we fail to understand the human, and so have little hope of solving problems pertaining to the human."