“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That blind spot is not really a blind spot—you’re choosing to look away. Perhaps more to the point, you already know whether you want to see it. You already know whether you’re going to use the machine. So why are you still reading this?”
“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That blind spot is not really a blind spot—you’re choosing to look away. Perhaps more to the point, you already know whether you want to see it. You already know whether you’re going to use the machine. So why are you still reading this?”
David Burr Gerrard
“The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.”
David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine“The epiphany machine will not discover anything about you that you do not, in some way, already know. But think for a moment about surprise. What is surprising is never what is revealed but the grace with which it has been hidden.”
David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine“One way to think about your life is as an extended free fall. An epiphany may help you see better as you fall. Rather than a meaningless blur, you will see rocks and trees and lizards. An epiphany is not a parachute.”
David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine“You already know what the machine will write on your arm. That lie you’ve been telling yourself—you know what it is. That blind spot is not really a blind spot—you’re choosing to look away. Perhaps more to the point, you already know whether you want to see it. You already know whether you’re going to use the machine. So why are you still reading this?”
David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine“Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?”
David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”
David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel“Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.”
David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel“That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.”
David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel“Christianity has always been the Gestapo of desire, since long, long before there was a Gestapo. Instead of Jews to hate, Christianity has desire. Though I guess Christianity has Jews, too. In any case, all the ovens in the world can’t incinerate desire.”
David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel“Don’t you wonder sometimes,” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?”
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