But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.
Philip SingtonTag: mad phillip-sington the-einstein-girl
I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
Philip SingtonThe wind funnelled down the covered platform, jostling the passengers and tearing at their clothes. A woman's scarf whipped by overhead, somersaulting as if intoxicated by the sudden taste of freedom.
Philip SingtonTo rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
Philip SingtonTag: literature-madness
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.
Philip SingtonOne of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
Philip SingtonI wanted her body and soul, but body first.
Philip SingtonDesire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.
Philip SingtonThe railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.
Philip SingtonTag: time relativity berlin s-bahn
And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became gradually human. For all their show of reluctance, she had a sense that they enjoyed introducing her to these horrors, as seducers took pleasure in the corruption of innocence.
Philip SingtonTag: police berlin 1930s crime-scenes
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