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But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

– Ursula Le Guin, in her novel The Dispossessed

What's the Giant doing, when he lies on the floor? There is a point – and you may know it yourself – a point in fatigue or pain when logic slow crumbles from the world, where reason's bricks sieve to crumb. Where content flits from language, goes it ways and departs, its pack on its back: you take the high road and I'll take the low. Where meaning

Another love affair, then, in the intervals of blood-letting. One finds time, one finds time.

He pulled Camille into this arms. His body seemed strange and precarious, made of shadows and angles.

Alison was a woman who seemed to fill a room, even when she wasn't in it. She was of an unfeasible size, with plump creamy shoulders, rounded calves, thighs and hips that overflowed her chair; she was soft as an Edwardian, opulent as a showgirl, and when she moved you could hear (though she did not wear them) the rustle of plumes and silks. In a

Nervous systems enable both complex movements and, eventually, the beginning of a real novelty: minds. Feelings are among the first examples of mind phenomena, and it is difficult to exaggerate their significance. Feelings allow creatures to represent in their respective minds the state of their own bodies preoccupied with regulating the internal

But such melancholy in no way changes reality. It is better, in my opinion, to give the era its due, since it demands this so vigorously, and calmly admit that the period of the revered master, of the artist with a camellia in his buttonhole, of the armchair genius is over. To create today is to create dangerously.

– Albert Camus