At the end of this transmission will you still remember it?
Aren’t we all still quivering
like tuning forks
with the shock of being,
the shock of being seen?
like tuning forks
with the shock of being,
the shock of being seen?
Hannah Fries • Let the Last Thing Be Song
That life—whatever else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes an
... See moreDonna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
“Everything we make, everything we do, is a bid for bearing our transience.” —Maria Popova
The collective memory is notoriously faulty, and much of the past sinks into the ocean of time to be drowned forever; but once in a while the waters part, allowing us to glimpse a flash of hidden treasure, if only for a moment.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
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