Empathy

"If the gravity of this moment outweighs your knowledge of where you are, that is pathetic. That is what makes the space above the ocean so attractive, but you still know enough to travel in a straight line through a patch of fog, and continue to walk when you emerge, with some fog clinging to you, up to your waist."

"Like the camera, memory is a device and feeling is a device, or a souvenir. The interior of the courtyard lights up. Its doorway becomes a luminous square in the dark, and I can regulate the rate at which a blue wooden bench passes across it, like a car, or returns, when I back up. An apple tree in blossom in the courtyard travels across the screen."

"in the distance, an allusive expanse of expanded, indifferent purity. Because your eye clings to this margin, it appears to speed up."

"Your concentration is interrupted by a shadow on the periphery of your memory of her. Your concentration is a large array, where debris in the mind appears as an intense shower of heat radiation, like a cluster of instincts to the body."

"A belief is a word-like object."

"To the extent that she can reconstruct a context or pornography in her body suitable for a hanged woman, a contingency is being beaten back, critically. In the sense that events happening at the same time are meaningful, though not connected, there are events which mean nothing, though there is something to mean. This is an easy way to expect with desire from moment to moment, while the woman was hanging herself, as if consistency and the quest for certainty were not emotional, as when a person begins telling a story, leaves move. He believed that when a life is valuable, there is further value when it is responded to as valuable, but this could occur through evaluative judgment, without his attendant emotion. The product is in one case consistent manners, in the other, beautiful manners."

"Why science does not use a word like she or there, is why the hand cannot make a sharp edge in the sand."