“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.”
Palinurus: The Unquiet Grave
(Cyril Connolly)
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@divegeester saidDayamn, Spanky! We'd better contain that within this very forum, for good or ill.
“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.”
Palinurus: The Unquiet Grave
(Cyril Connolly)
P.S. -- Cool to see you citing Cyril Connolly. I first learned of Horizon magazine when I was a teenager in Saint Petersburg (Florida, not Russia!), at the county library in the late 1970s, the same one where I learned of Stapledon's timelines.
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@divegeester saidThat’s some impressive writing
“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.”
Palinurus: The Unquiet Grave
(Cyril Connolly)
