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“Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.”

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M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison, born on July 26, 1945, is a British author known for his unique perspective and profound insights across various genres, including history, science fiction, and literature. more

“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”

Way Dream Cities Vision West East Paris Prime Site Imitation Uneasy Hallucinations Vienna Budapest

Author:M. John Harrison

“Perception of a state is not the state.”

States Perception

Book:Nova Swing

Source: Nova Swing

“Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.”

Way Perspective Reader Ordinary Bullshit Glimpse Bizarre Transport Threshold Revive Ominous

Author:M. John Harrison

“At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.”

Heart Girl Left Hours Cities Cold Seats Steel Insecure Stressed Caps Leather Cursed Armour City Girl