"The first lesson of the Mechanics: you were never here … Every causal system evolves without cause, within an absolute futurity where Divinity awaits, terrible and unacknowledged." (David Roden, Snuff Memories)
“Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months, if not many years, of one man’s solitude...”