“He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or some slowly developing suburb— to be alone and carefully build a life in which he might be able to b…”— Tao Lin, amazon.com
“I told you the truth about my distancing myself. I roll on a wave and look at white clouds. Growing small, I disappear in the immense, more and more free.”— Czeslaw Milosz, ibiblio.org
“I breathed in the night air that was or was not laced with anachronistic blossoms and felt the small thrill I always felt to a lesser or greater degree when I looked at Manhattan's skyline and the innumerable illuminated windows and the liquid sapphire and ruby of traffic on the FDR Drive and the pr…”— Ben Lerner, sagasgas