#mundane

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From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange to him. It does indeed seem that the strict order of the visible world is only a semblance, one providing certain gross materials which become the basis for subtle improvisations of invisible powers. Hence, it may appear to some that a leafless tree is not a tree but a signpost to another realm; that an old house is not a house but a thing possessing a will of its own; that the dead may throw off that heavy blanket of earth to walk in their sleep, and in ours. And these are merely a few of the infinite variations on the themes of the natural order as it is usually conceived. But is there really a strange world? Of course. Are there, then, two worlds? Not at all. There is only our own world and it alone is alien to us, intrinsically so by virtue of its lack of mysteries. If only it actually were deranged by invisible powers, if only it were susceptible to real strangeness, perhaps it would seem more like a home to us, and less like an empty room filled with the echoes of this dreadful improvising. To think that we might have found comfort in a world suited to our nature, only to end up in one so resoundingly strange!


Thomas Ligotti


#not-nearly-uncanny-enough #uncanny #nature

Time had changed the magical to mundane


Rohinton Mistry


#magical #mundane #time #change

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awake repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread forced by being to watch the birth of suns


Frank Bidart


#consolation #mundane-life #art

Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.


Cassandra Clare


#jace #mundane #simon #time

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.


Geoffrey Fisher


#i #infirmity #knows #last #minds

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#how #like #lot #magic #magician

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.


Jared Harris


#becomes #behind #character #child #eat

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.


Rufus Wainwright


#i #i can #like #make #mundane

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.


David Byrne


#gets #ignored #life #lot #mundane

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.


Richard Le Gallienne


#conduct #element #important #laws #mundane