“The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.” LightTurnsSunConscienceMurderSnowGoldenJudgementPerpetualSummoningCymbals Author:Janet Frame
“I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.” WorldHumansLittlesLightFacesChallengesHuman BeingsPoorMorningSunAuthorityLateShotsResponsibleSlaveTerritoryWakingWoundedDaylight Book:Daughter buffalo Source: Daughter buffalo
“Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them. Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face.” PeopleWorldSometimesHelpingDreamRealityLightFacesMovingNightTurnsBeliefWaterMemoriesWhiteForgetResponsibilityListeningCircumstancesWalkingCalmTricksStreamsNeighborhoodGlimpseHostileLimbsUrgentAvoidedOur MemoriesUneasiness Book:Faces in the water Source: Faces in the water
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.” FirstsFactsLightMemoriesDarknessRecordsAirThirdsStartingFollowingMythMixturesLiquidStarting PointSecond PlaceDarkness WithinThird Place Book:The Complete Autobiography Source: The Complete Autobiography
