‘[E]xplanation of the irrational is replaced by tabooed luxuriance within it.’

— Bridget Fowler

‘I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible.’

— John XIII

What is the nightmare from which a distressed cat abruptly wakes? From what figure does it flee?

‘I have always liked the hard and sequinned sheen of London streets at night, their empty dockyard look.’

— V.S. Pritchett, ‘When My Girl Comes Home’

‘With the railways in the van, and ruin in the rear – capital leads the way, its passage is marked with universal destruction.’

— Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital’

‘Like Fanon and others, we use the metropolitan languages and turn them upside down, until it screams your screams.’

— Dambudzo Marechera