Jun 5
Does city living eat away at your survival instinct?
Keri Hulme, Te Kaihau/The Windeater
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Does city living eat away at your survival instinct?
Keri Hulme, Te Kaihau/The Windeater
Life is made real by sudden surprises, sudden illuminating delightful surprises.
Keri Hulme, A Window Drunken in the Brain
"Don't be afraid. We are all islands but the sea connects us, everyone. Swim."
Keri Hulme, Unnamed Islands in the Unknown Sea
Man indeed! How arrogant! How ignorant! Woman would be as correct, but I'll settle for humanity. And it strikes me that the quality humanity stands in need of most is true intelligence and self-knowledge.
Keri Hulme, One Whale, Singing
Blessed are the people who expect nothing, for verily they shall get it.
Keri Hulme, A Nightsong for the Shining Cuckoo
It all boils down to this: there are things quite outside humanity and we can't do battle with them. We have to leave it to their own kind to bring them to heel. Doubtless they will, if they feel we and the world are worth it.
Keri Hulme, Te Kaihau/The Windeater
I look hastily away and see that the grinning moon really is a skull, the fingernail edge a highlight on her bare jawbone.
Keri Hulme, Te Kaihau/The Windeater
What would a whale do with an artefact, who is so perfectly adapted to the sea? Their conception of culture, of civilisation, must be so alien that we'd never recognise it, even if we were to stumble on its traces daily.
Keri Hulme, One Whale, Singing