The most beautiful thing I've read in awhile
This is just about a moment a guy has while sitting at a cafe table, by himself:
"It was the world behind the world, where reflection precludes the necessity for action, and the calm that all things seek in death appears briefly in the guise of contentment, the spirit at last persuaded that the still waters of perfection are reachable. The details of market life and the personal financial considerations that shoot like rockets across the dark heavens of the inner cosmos serve merely to give it scale and to emphasize its vastness, in no wise troubling its supreme tranquility."
-Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
"It was the world behind the world, where reflection precludes the necessity for action, and the calm that all things seek in death appears briefly in the guise of contentment, the spirit at last persuaded that the still waters of perfection are reachable. The details of market life and the personal financial considerations that shoot like rockets across the dark heavens of the inner cosmos serve merely to give it scale and to emphasize its vastness, in no wise troubling its supreme tranquility."
-Paul Bowles, The Spider's House