Maxims for life. Les unions complètes sont rares. You cannot change humanity, you can only know it. Happiness is a scarlet cloak whose lining is in tatters. Lovers are like Siamese twins, two bodies with a single soul; but if one dies before the other, the survivor has a corpse to lug around. Pride makes us long for a solution to things - a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. You cannot change humanity, you can only know it. Les unions complètes sont rares.
A maxim upon maxims. Truths about writing can be framed before you've published a word.; truths about life can be framed only when it's too late to make any difference.
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Indeed!
Love it.
I suppos truths about life are history, time passed, but I guaruntee that there is a repeat, a cyclical nature to it all. I don't know how rare these unions in time really are. I think realising the unions are rare, but the unions themselves are plentiful. And the only way to proove they happen, is by letting them happen.
Interesting that it has a Parrot in the title. Parrots are all about repeat.
Speaking of repeat, more massicotte, more, more, more. me likes, me likes.
(note: look these dudes up)
according to voy.com...
Julian Barnes once allegedly remarked that any foreigner visiting the US could perform a simple magic trick: "Buy a newspaper and see your own country disappear."
what's the context for the quotes above? does a character say this, or a narrator, or the author himself?
this is some good stuff. sad, but true.
These are Geoffrey Braithwaite's words, narrator, character, writer, all wrapped up into one.
This book is funny, sad, tedious, enlightening, boring, and strange. Postmodern lit at its best.
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