Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.
Perception of a state is not the state. - M. John Harrison
Perception of a state is not the state.
- M. John Harrison
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. - M. John Harrison
Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. W… - M. John Harrison
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. W…
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes - M. John Harrison
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. - M. John Harrison
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold a… - M. John Harrison
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold a…
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be de… - M. John Harrison
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be de…
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same tim… - M. John Harrison
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same tim…
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will n… - M. John Harrison
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will n…
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