His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming.
("Imajica")
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'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be extraordinary We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay rot.
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The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.
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Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have only this in common that hidden amongst them is a filigree which will with time become a world.
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There was time for all their miracles now. For ghosts and transformations for passion and ambiguity for noon-day visions and midnight glory. Time in abundance. For nothing ever begins. And this story, having no beginning, will have no end.
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It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in their metaphysical, sexual and violent imagery as the stories. But with the way censorship is at present, there's no way you can do that.
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