#john romeril

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“It’s not that human beings cannot bear too much reality. It’s that reality is too much to bear.”

Harry in John Romeril’s The Floating World

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“When an airliner crashes there is wreckage strewn on either side for a mile. We are all human wreckage and there is not one place on this earth we have not walked. [...] We are wreckage strewn across a planet - evidence of some monstrous crime against ourselves. [...] The century of disasters.”

Harry from John Romeril’s The Floating World

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“If I thought it was my business to make someone’s pain palatable and undisturbing for an audience I would prefer to close up shop.”

John Romeril

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“The point is not to suffer the world but to change it.”

Harry from John Romeril’s The Floating World