So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

David Mitchell

Mots clés wisdom perspective learning-from-mistakes postmodern postmodernism loser improvement cloud-atlas winner



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In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.

David Mitchell

Mots clés music kings snores



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science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity’s powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

David Mitchell

Mots clés science humanity war



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Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.

David Mitchell


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Our brains are dark globes lit by very distant stars.

David Mitchell


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Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons?

David Mitchell


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...where there's Hilo, oh, there's blissweed.

David Mitchell


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Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.

David Mitchell


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The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.

David Mitchell

Mots clés life philosophy perfect



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To get the crowd to cry Hosanna, you must first ride to town on an ass.

David Mitchell


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