"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Monday, August 8 ~
Permalink
“ Dori Seda never met Lester Bangs. Two simple real-life acts of human caring, at the proper moment, might have saved them both; but when those moments came, they had no one, not even each other. And so they went down into darkness, like skaters, breaking through the hard bright shiny surface of our true-facts world. Today I made this white paper dream to cover the holes they left.
—

Bruce Sterling, “Dori Bangs” in Globalhead

I found this at the end of an essay in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction and I thought that it was beautiful. I’m definitely going to seek out this book of short stories.

Tags: bruce sterling dori bangs globalhead quote alternate history lit