"I had gotten in too deep. It would have been so easy if only I could have cried. But crying wasn't an option, because I felt that far ahead of me there was something really worth crying about."

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"It might be good for you if our feelings were the way you want them, but I don't want them that way now. I feel remote from such things. Why won't you leave me alone? In your feelings, you come following me everywhere. There's no point in your pursuing my feelings where they are now ( Read more... )

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I remember the days when my biggest conscious dilemma was where to put the ! in Godspeed You Black Emperor

"You fool, marriage is now out of the question!" said K. When he put it to me that way, I had to agree with him ( Read more... )

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...the posthumous account of [Hagiwara] written by his daughter Yoko paints a poignant picture of the aging poet, fascinated by stage-magic and simple conjuring tricks, drifting into alienation and persistent drunkenness. Kitahara Hakushu, in his introduction to Barking at the Moon, had likened the quality in Hagiwara's early poetry to that of a " ( Read more... )

Takahashi smiles and looks at Mari. "Well, finally, once you become an orphan, you're an orphan till the day you die. I keep having the same dream. I'm seven years old and an orphan again. All alone, with no adults around to take care of me. It's evening, and the light is fading, and night is pressing in. It's always the same. In the dream I always ( Read more... )

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