Ramblings

Greg - Sweetmorn, 49 Aftermath 3169 @ 01:14 AM

As her hair swung forward, under her collar, there was another, bright flash. "Ugly thing. I hope I don't need you."

I said: "Hope you don't either."

...

Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland and into the hills, I have come to

to wound the autumnal city. - Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delaney.

I read it at fifteen and only comprehended the poetry of it; at twenty I understood it. Technically.

Now I get it. And no, I don't care that a typographical error had something to do with it.


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