#p167

[leatherbounded]

The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, from Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

[nusumigaki]

人間でも動物でも、目の前で起きていることは見えないものなんだ。

[doa-sicko]

Danny you’re pissing me off. I love me a honest kinda of unwitting, cross between a dog and a wet paper towel bisexual man who would love to bottom, but for Christ sake just fucking take the opportunity and maybe answer your internal dilemma of “am I gay?” By kissing a dude. And then google what being a bisexual is. And pegging I guess.

[dotsunflowers]

"I tell him that a virus need not do harm. That not all self-propagating code is malicious. Our father's virus would never delete files. Would never steal passwords or spy on the intimate moments of strangers. Would not spread like cancer, but like a story. Would slip through fibre optic cables to cross oceans, would pass like radio waves through the walls of houses that nobody even knows are haunted. A ghost story that computers tell one another in the dark."

—from Malagash, by Joey Comeau

[readinginmars]

"The curious thing about etymology, they soon learned, was that anything could influence a language, from the consumption habits of the rich and worldly to the so-called vulgar utterances of the poor and wretched."

Babel - R. F. Kuang

[nusumigaki]

なにしろ時間だけはある。正確には時間の概念自体がない。

[nusumigaki]

剥き立ての赤貝っていうのはとにかく香りが素晴らしい。爽やかな潮の香りだけじゃなくて、新鮮なフルーツのような香りがするんです。そして食感もサクッと歯切れがよくてみずみずしい。

[nusumigaki]

それでわたしは、世界というのは自分が思っているよりずっと正常なのだということを知った。