Matthew Lindquist
@ax23000
Matthew Lindquist
@ax23000
A neat looking Advance Wars style game on iOS.
Just as I'd put off the night river, I'd put off the sea. Both were like death. I am neither old enough nor young enough to write about the sea. It is both too big to be described and too basic to need description.
Charles Foster, Being a Beast
Here is what the sea smells like.
It is more texture than scent, because the sea is primarily made of two substances that have no smell of their own: water and salt. Salt has no smell, but makes the air sting, and so all of the other smells of the sea are layered upon the pang of salt. Water has no smell but instead a comfort. We feel moisture as
Horror and
Nostalgia, the intense ache for one’s past, desire for one’s past—not because it had been so wonderful but simply because it had been, and now was gone. He recalled Eve’s face, talking in this crowded room across from him. But not what she had said, or why they were there. Of course not. Simply an isolated moment, a cactus needle, an image seen as
... See more“We both suffered, I know we did, but differently. And sometimes, when the day loomed gray, I’d sit at my desk and remember the heat of that summer. I’d remember the smells of tuberose that were carried by the wind, and the smell of octopus cooking on stinking griddles. I’d remember the sound of our laughter and the sound of a doughnut seller, and
... See moreHe looked up at the castle. The building seemed to be watching him. The windows and gables were like so many eyes through which his ancient lineage observed him, pulling him into a dark vortex of honor, discipline, and death. Baron Wilhelm von Lehndorff could go nowhere