Life might be very small victories and meanings.

Is saying “joy” a joyous thing, in and of itself?

- Max Ritvo

Study Questions:

What does time mean to Atlas?

What is symbolic? Would you like a simile?

- Max Ritvo

It’s hard to love people committed to projects

- Max Ritvo

Above me are stars

but no constellations.

- Max Ritvo

I am possessed with self-pity,

and it is expressing itself

out of my mouth. It sounds like a whole flock of sheep suddenly

realizing the flock is an imposed externality.

- Max Ritvo

Don’t wish for anything. Don’t get organized.

Don’t buy a book. Don’t go to bed early.

Seek out beige, in foodstuffs and landscapes.

Chew gum if you’re overwhelmed.

You’re in this alone. That means there’s nobody to stop you.

You’re almost at the finish line.

But first, you have to pick a finish line.

- Max Ritvo

Nobody ever tells you how busy loneliness is

- Max Ritvo

The Real Housewives of somewhere

on high volume

- Ryann Stevenson

Proustiano

AR

O objeto não é recuperável

pois o que foi perdido não foi apenas ele:

perdeu-se também o tempo

em que ele existiu.

Talvez fechar

uma história

seja aceitar

que ela continuará

aberta

em algum lugar.

- AR

Não quero voltar.

Quero

ter estado lá.

- AR

ele não pensa em mim

é possível

mas uma vida inteira

não precisa

de duas testemunhas

- AR

The years I've spent trying to get all the things I was told were important - that I was supposed to want! Things! Not people... or meaning. Just things.

- Tony, Seconds (1966)