Thursday, May 08, 2008

Le ova non devono ballare con le pietre




They're strange things, girls. One can't avoid them. They're so pretty. And they're everywhere. They always make like nothing. I like their voices. I also like it when they laugh and smile. And when they walk. They're also a bit scary. Sometimes i think they know something i don't. But they're pretty. And hard to get. It never ceases to amaze me that even the friendliest girls become attracted to the most rotten boys. My only chance is to not pretend.

Naive.Super
Erlend Loe


A car went by outside, and we watched blocks of light slide across the ceiling. Carl pushed down on my foot, and I pressed up on his. This is something we did the first time we ever slept together, it is a seven-year-old gesture. We never really had a proper courtship; we met at a potluck where we quickly discovered that we were both recovering from a break-up. By the time we stopped talking about our exes, we'd been together for a year. I pushed up on Carl's foot, and he pressed down on mine. If the gesture were a person, it'd be in second grade by now. But it is just some movements. Still, i feel close to him when we do this than at any other time. It is as if our feet are in the perfect, honest, loving relationship, but from the ankles up, we are lost. I push again, but the does not push back; he is asleep.


No One Belongs Here More Than You
(Mon Plaisir)
Miranda July




The universe began about fifteen billion years ago, in almost absolute simplicity, and it's been getting more and more complex ever since. This movement from the simple to the complex is built into the web and weave of the universe, and it called the tendancy toward complexity. We're the products of this complexification, and so are the birds and the bees, and the trees, and the stars, and even the galaxies of stars. And if we were to get wiped out in a cosmic explosion, like an asteroid impact or something, some other expression of our level of complexity would emerge, because that's what the universe does. And this is likely to be going on all over the universe.
The final or ultimate complexity - the place where all this complexity is going - is what, or who we might call god. And anything that promotes, enhances, or accelerates this movement toward God is good. Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents it is evil. And if we want to know if something is good or evil - something like war and killing and smuggling guns to mujaheddin guerillas, for example - then we ask the questions: What if everyone did this thing? Would that help us, in this bit of the universe, to get there, or would it hold us back? And then we have a pretty good idea whether it's good or evil. What's more important, we know why it's good or evil.

Shantaram
David Gregory Roberts