From Ferdydurke
Nothing which is in good taste can be really dreadful: only its opposite, which is ‘disgusting’, really makes us puke. Chocolate with garlic is disgusting, but not Shakespeare’s magnificent, fascinating crimes. Don’t talk to me about your rhymed and mimed sufferings which never offend good taste and go down as easily as oysters. Don’t talk [...]
From The Street of Crocodiles
The suburban houses were sinking, windows and all, into the exuberant tangle of blossom in their little gardens. Overlooked by the light of day, weeds and wild flowers of all kinds luxuriated quietly, glad of the interval for dreams beyond the margin of time on the borders of an endless day. An enormous sunflower, lifted [...]
