September 2014 Archiv

Teufelszeug.

The devil, Sixsmith, is in the pronouns.

Robert Frobisher in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Freitod.

My television died the night George Bush II snatched the throne and I haven't dared replace it.

Timothy Cavendish in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Or cyclin'.

A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't.

Zachry in Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Wait for it.

But sometimes genius is anything but rarefied; sometimes it’s just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Malcolm Gladwell: Late Bloomers

Love besides the rails.

That design document predated the decision to exclude gay relationships in the game. Its pages described a web of social interactions, in which every kind of romantic relationship was permitted.

Simon Parkin: The Kiss That Changed Video Games