“The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.” KnowsStoriesSpaceSolutionsAlliesShort StoryHeadingsStory Writers Author:Julio Cortazar
“We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.” KnowsHas BeensCausesAttentionWrittenSubjectsAbsenceSignificantBoundariesEndlessSurroundLightningCoincidencePenetrateAnalogiesConcentratingSerendipityTerminology Author:Julio Cortazar
“La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.” IfsKnowsWorldDifferentEyeBlackWaterSawsCuttingKissingConceptsPilotsDizzy Book:Hopscotch: A Novel Source: Hopscotch: A Novel
“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” KnowsSometimesPlayDream Book:Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much Source: Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much
