I create the whole universe blink by blink
Posted By Evan Hansen On April 25, 2010 @ 12:32 pm In Uncategorized | No Comments
I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe blink by blink…
“The world resists me and I resist the world,” I said. “That’s all there is. The mountains are what I define them as.” Ah, monstrous stupidity of childhood, unreasonable hope!
-John Gardner’s Grendel, “the Beowulf legend retold from the monster’s point of view”
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