14. ‘Like Fanon and others, we use the metropolitan languages and turn them upside down, until it screams your screams.’ — Dambudzo Marechera
13. ‘[A]ll might prophecy, that is (in the lowest sense) be able to speak to edification, exhortation and comfort’ — Mary Cary
12. ‘it’s hard not to think everything’s right with the world when you see sunlight glinting through leaves, but it might not be true, of course, the fact that things could go wrong and the sun might still glint’ — Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport
Untitled That revulsion-compulsion at the sight of a cigarette half-smoked then dropped to bob in a toilet bowl. You know how it would feel, wet between your lips.
11. ‘Any messiah who comes is false. The essence of the messiah is that he will always be coming.’ — Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
Untitled ‘I cannot inhabit the mindset of a primitive form of the species: a creature with concepts for stone or tree, but not for arguing that non-existents may have properties but still be non-existent, such as the specifications for a devil.’ — Laura Del-Rivo, ‘Notes on Time’