The real unreal
You’ve seen me before putting together the most disparate things, while keeping a straight face and a serious tone. So here’s a quote excised from a review of an anime about “magical girls”: I’ve...
View ArticleTrue Detective
Oh, True Detective, HBO. Singular masterpiece on TV now. Some pretentiousness and fluff aside, this is serious good writing, excellent use of music, excellent direction, and even more excellent acting,...
View ArticleMythology of a True Detective
This is going to be a little rambly. I only wanted to pick up a quote from episode 5 of True Detective because it repeats a pattern. One that I’ve been using in many of my posts on “mythology”. This is...
View ArticleHumbled
Just a nicely worded quote from a Kabbalistic text I was reading this morning. Lots of these give me many doubts, but this one is a rather accurate description: (about the question “What is the meaning...
View ArticleAs it goes
Okay, to hell with boundaries. I make a sport of this blog confusing everything with everything else. Reading Malazan book 6 I found a quote that is basically the Malazan formulation of the Kabbalah...
View ArticleHidden under
I randomly bumped on this old Erikson interview. A couple of quotes: The dialogue that I have written that I remain pleased about is generally the tersest kind. The massive understatement. The line...
View ArticleThe Magus
I said rather desperately, “I just feel I’d enjoy it more if I know what it all meant.” Then it was as if I had said something that really pleased him. He turned and gave me a smile, took my arm again....
View ArticleErikson’s Malazan
(Non-spoiler) quotes from the recent QA about the series on Tor. Erikson’s own words: Writing it felt like more than one lifetime: it felt like hundreds of lifetimes, all crowded into a single place...
View ArticleSpinning the windmills
After I finished reading “The Magus” by John Fowles, and while in the process of wrapping up my review of it, I found out two things that I knew would eventually lead to this follow-up. The first is...
View ArticleTrue Detective, Season 2
True Detective, Season 2, Episode 5: One day you might find cause to ask yourself what the limit is to some pain you’re experiencing and… you’ll find out there is no limit at all. Pain is...
View ArticleEvery Man in his Castle
“The only way… to view the truth of life, Kotomichi… is to stand apart from it, to see… the consequence of every thought, every action. But still… we are bound by time and space, unable to steer our...
View ArticleQuotes
The first is Erikson, the last Bakker. They aren’t together because I think they are really related, but I read them the same day. “Traditions die. And those who hold fast to them, cursing and filled...
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