“Now, to be a good Israeli means to see ourselves as the only protagonists in our story.” —”Children of the State” by Yitzhak Laor (London Review of Books, 1/26/06)
“What people say about their own motives and intentions, even when they are not caught in the same traps that entangled Heisenberg, is always subject to question—as subject to questions as what anybody else says about them. Thoughts and intentions—even one’s own—perhaps one’s own most of all—remain shifting and elusive. There is not one single thought or intention of any sort that can ever be precisely established.”—Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (1998), p. 94 (postscript)
“All biographies are written this way. Life is shown as a luminous trajectory of causes, effects, failures, and successes, and man, setting his impatient gaze on the causal chain of his actions, further accelerates his mad race toward death.” p. 161 Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
“gone to Croatan” (Roanoke)
T.A.Z. p 12 galleries turn beauty into a commodity but banks transmute imagination into feces and debt