“...were we so blind to the world teetering on the edge that we never straightened up from what we were doing to consider things more clearly or have we lost completely that brute instinct for catastrophe, that sensitivity now buried… — 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
