It Is Only The Carrier Of That Wonderful Mind, After All. A Case For The Crown.

It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown.

Less by Andrew Sean Greer (via wholesomeobsessive)

The boat ride is half an hour, during which Less sees leaping dolphins and flying fish skipping like stones over the water, as well as the floating mane of a jellyfish. He recalls an aquarium he visited as a boy, where, after enjoying a sea turtle that swam breaststroke like a dotty old aunt, he encountered a jellyfish, a pink frothing brainless negligeed monster pulsing in the water, and thought with a sob: We are not in this together.

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Simon watched her surreptitiously, the worry plain on his face, and suddenly she hated his doggy loyalty, his doggy love. She didn’t want anyone to care for her like that, it was an unbearable burden, an imposition.

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (via wholesomeobsessive)

There’s nothing like doing the crossword with your ex-wife.

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There are numerous baffling interviews - ‘I am sorry, I need the interprete, I cannot understand your American accent’ - in which dowdy matrons in lavender linen ask highly intellectual questions about Homer and Joyce, and quantum physics. Less, completely below the journalistic radar in America, and unused to substantive questions, keeps to a fiercely merry-making persona at all times, refused to wax philosophical about subjects he chose to write about precisely because he does not understand them.

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“Fine, fine,” Frank snarled at the end of one of these meetings. “We’re all going to be on Mars, do we really have to fight like this over what we’re going to do there?” “That’s life,” Arkady said cheerfully. “On Mars or not, life goes on.” Frank’s jaw was clenched. “I came here to get away from this kind of thing!” Arkady shook his head. “You certainly did not! This is your life, Frank. What would you do without it?”

Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (via wholesomeobsessive)