“It's only through form that we can realize emptiness”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“There seemed no face within the cowl, only a black emptiness, and the notion sprang irresistibly to Dietrich’s mind that this was Death, now these dozen years overdue, treading a weary mountain trail in search of him. Then a flash of white showed within the shadow and Dietrich realized that it was only the angle of the sun that had made that hood seem so empty.”
— Michael Flynn, book Eifelheim
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XVIII (p. 323)
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