Hieronymus Bosch.

“We constantly look for someone responsible, or for several persons responsible, in order to make things bearable for ourselves at least for a moment, and naturally, if we are honest, we invariably end up with ourselves.”
—Thomas Bernhard (from YES)

Ruth Marten

“Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you’re not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized …

Marcel Proust on the experience and accumulated meaning of Christmas

Hieronymus Bosch.

On John Barth, innocence, and life stories as more than only stories:

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