Thursday, February 12, 2026

Influences (viii)

 




"They were watching, out

there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning

and whales ferry their vast souls through


the black and seamless sea."





Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West




























Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Influences (vii)

 



"The truth about the world, he said, is that

anything is possible. Had you not seen it all

from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness


it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick

in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras

having neither analogue nor precedent, an

itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow


whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field

is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."



Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West



























Thursday, February 5, 2026

Influences (vi)

 




"Anger, of course, overcomes all hesitations
and can thus replace the primary reason

precisely because it is no reason at all."



Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From Underground



























Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Influences (v)

 



"He remembered that Colonel Gerineldo Marquez had once promised to get him a horse with a white star on its face and then he had never spoken about it again. Then he went on toward scattered episodes but he brought them back without any judgement because since he could not think of anything else, he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling."



Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude



























Sunday, February 1, 2026

Influences (iv)

 





"Aureliano Serrador had left his girlfriend at her parents' house after having taken her to the movies and was returning through the well-lighted Street of the Turks when someone in the crowd who was never identified fired a revolver shot which knocked him over into a caldron of boiling lard."


Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude