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Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet. ↗
#charles-cornick #humor #hunting-ground #public-speaking #humor
Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there. ↗
Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. We are oppressed at being men -- men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man. We are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better. We are developing a taste for it. Soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea. But enough; I don't want to write more from "Underground. ↗
#notes #subsuelo #underground #love
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. ↗
#disease #fyodor-dostoyevsky #illness #intellect #notes-from-the-underground
Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds! ↗
Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones. ↗
#hearthstone #literature #literature-quotes #merry-go-round #philosophy
...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... ↗
#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice
