“an attractive middle-aged school teacher who was taking time out after a few hours gardening and who, even in these relaxed, unguarded moments was never far from that school-marmish neatness which she carried from her classroom and which, in the… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“What no tourist bumf will tell you is that this inlet is suffused with an atmosphere of ineffable sadness. Partly a trick of the… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“her voice suddenly gone as if it had snagged on the mist and was carried off into the failing light, leaving the phone dead… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“something that at first sight appeared to be the luminous bones of some massive, extinct creature, now disinterred, with its ribs gathered into a… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“...were we so blind to the world teetering on the edge that we never straightened up from what we were doing to consider things… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“an attractive middle-aged school teacher who was taking time out after a few hours gardening and who, even in these relaxed, unguarded moments was… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“and it was surely the case also that only machines built to so large a scale and of such pristine alloys could bridge the… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“the anxious worry that I might be responsible in some way for what was on the walls of the gallery behind me, a wringing… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“I stood here in this kitchen elaborating and embellishing this fantasy for some time instead of taking responsibility for what was happening around me… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“no point whatsoever meeting catastrophe with reason when what was needed was our prophets deranged and coming towards us wild-eyed and smeared with shit,… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“I walked down the hall towards whatever bedroom she was lying in I sometimes experienced those few steps as a long journey southwards which… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.” — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
“some things are so awful, you can't look them square in the face and some things make no sense no matter what angle you… — Mike McCormack Copy Share Image
