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8 months, 3 weeks ago

they got drunk on sugar

I was pleased to see such a high incidence of individualism; although limited, that capacity for transgression made me feel hopeful about the future of ants, a domain of Nature whose societal model had seemed as perfect, absolute and mechanical as that of bees; a model in which the individual count…

—p.479 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
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this reverie of self-absorption project/nemesis why/write

I’m sorry, literature, you who also have something of a guileless and pitying prostitute about you, I’ve abandoned you too in this reverie of self-absorption, reminiscing behind your back. I’m losing you, too, but it had to be done. I hope you understand: I’m trying to put my own jigsaw together, c…

—p.471 by Mario Levrero
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8 months, 3 weeks ago

this reverie of self-absorption project/nemesis why/write

I’m sorry, literature, you who also have something of a guileless and pitying prostitute about you, I’ve abandoned you too in this reverie of self-absorption, reminiscing behind your back. I’m losing you, too, but it had to be done. I hope you understand: I’m trying to put my own jigsaw together, c…

—p.471 by Mario Levrero
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8 months, 3 weeks ago

you, who were once whole

And might this not be the real reason for what happened with G? If my heart belonged to someone else … Even now, there are nights when I return to that part of the city, and I feel, of course I do (fool that I am, unable to connect to my feelings unless I sit down and write like a man possessed), I…

—p.470 by Mario Levrero
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the point is to be alive and to know it advice/living

Before that, I moved through the city like a sleepwalker; although my eyes were open, I saw no more than the bare minimum I needed in order to get where I had to go. But then, in the time opened up by the green-eyed gaze, the city filled all three, or four, of its dimensions; I lived in it, breathe…

—p.467 by Mario Levrero