Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.
Thomas M. DischSometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful
Thomas M. DischIn short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a punctured career (for though Rey didn’t live with them, his off-stage presence was as abiding and palpable as that of any paterfamilias away every day at the office). And Daniel himself. But better to be strange together than strange apart. He was glad to have found such a haven at last, and he hoped that most familial and doomed of hopes, that nothing would change.
Thomas M. DischTags: family
Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known
Thomas M. DischThis is my journal. I can be candid here. Candidly, I could not be more miserable.
Thomas M. DischGenius is an infinite capacity for pain.
Thomas M. DischThough opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.
Thomas M. DischThe end of the world. Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to bother you. You can relax. You know what? I like the end of the world.
Thomas M. DischTags: end-times
The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?
Thomas M. Disch(Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.
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