“Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldCareImaginationDifferencesDarknessImagineThousandTenOppositesFloatingMiraculousAsian Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?” MindHeartSoulWholeMomentsBodyCareIntellectMind Body Author:Denis Johnson
“The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.” WayFeelsMadeSaidCareFilmCertainNamesVoiceHappenedSweetRainAccidentsFedsTake MeThey SaidVeinsPillsSalesmanRaindropsSweet Voice Author:Denis Johnson
