"Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear."

-- Adam Thirlwell

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“Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.”
“Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.”
“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”
“Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.”

Source : Song: Someone To Love Me
“when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver”
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.”
“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.”

Source : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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