Paul Graham | Beyond Caryng →
‘He is not heroic, he is aware that modern life is full of nondescript melancholy, of discomfort, of queer relationships which beget emotions that are half-ludicrous and yet painful and that an inconclusive ending for all these impulses is much more usual than anything extreme.’
Virgina Woolf, on the short stories of Anton Chekhov
I’ve said it before, I do not credit the epiphanic, the seeing through that reveals all, triggered by a mastering of detail…Life’s moments truly come at us heedless, not at the bidding of a gilded fragrance.’
Richard Ford, The Lay of The Land
from Paul Graham personal website
