May 2010
26 posts
"Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by... →
(via claytoncubitt)
The opening paragraph of JG Ballard's 'High-Rise',...
claytoncubitt:
“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months. Now that everything had returned to normal, he was surprised that there had been no obvious beginning, no point beyond which their lives had moved into a clearly more sinister dimension. With its...
Thermopylae
smut-to-go:
by Raymond Carver
Back at the hotel, watching her loosen, then comb out her russet hair in front of the window, she deep in private thought, her eyes somewhere else, I am reminded for some reason of those Lacedaemonians Herodotus wrote about, whose duty it was to hold the Gates against the Persian army. And who did. For four days. First, though, under the disbelieving eyes of...
