because it's lovely ( Read more... )

"I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky."
-Jose Luis Piexoto, The Implacable Order Of Things (this surreal Portuguese novel that I was surprised to ( Read more... )