Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book Of Fish: A Novel In Twelve Fish Quotes
Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!
Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.