Thursday, August 9, 2012

"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep"

Hirake Kokoro (Open Mind) by Kaori Watanabe (2007)

"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not."

Darl from As I Lay Dying by WILLIAM FAULKNER