If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka’s first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka’s book tanked, “You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.” Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else’s success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: the-new-yorker page-turner posthumous
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: books men tomorrow born alive posthumous
I like a look of agony, because I know it's true
Emily DickinsonTags: human-nature posthumous
As any avid reader knew, a good read deserved a good seat.
David S.E. ZapantaTags: bibliophile reading-books zombies undead posthumous
To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.
David S.E. ZapantaTags: romance unrequited-love bibliophile reading-books zombies undead posthumous
Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.
David S.E. ZapantaTags: death immortality zombies undead posthumous
He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.
David S.E. ZapantaTags: book-lover bibliophile reading-books zombies undead posthumous
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