“This is continuity, you travel, perhaps in your mind, a paper world real, God reeling up and down landscapes and buildings, knocks down, opens new roads, doesn’t like it, changes again, but there isn’t a seam, His world is onefold, and you perceive neither seam nor contradiction, continuity only.”

— Dimitris Lyacos

Source: Poena Damni Z213: Exit, Shoestring Press, 2010.

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