“She looked, and saw the black, domed sky arching over her head. And her heart dilated; she felt the great black dome in her heart. She sat under the stars, worshiping them. Her heart opened and grew vast, until the whole sky with all its stars began to pour into her, a mysterious flood of star-strung darkness. She wanted to receive the night sky into her heart.”
Remembering Anna Kavan on her birthday.
Guh, Anna Kavan is a TERF. 🔪
"Dreamlike, these colossal, fantastic mountains, aloof like gods. Dreamlike sky-diving moon. Dream road, unending, always spiraling upward. Nightmare road, verging on dizzy chasms, a knife-edge eternally twisting in steeper and sharper bends."
-"High in the Mountains"
"Poor moon, you've lost your old magic, you couldn't hurt anyone if you tried. You're not even mysterious anymore. The rocket that fell on your virgin surface degraded you, put you into the clutches of human beings. Man always destroys magic and beauty wherever he goes, he contaminates everything."
-"High in the Mountains"
"It's wonderful driving alone at night, driving fast, the headlights slicing a way for me through the darkness, everything racing toward me and then wiped out, obliterated. Nothing exists behind me."
-"High in the Mountains"
In the story "Experiment " and later in "Now and Then" and "High in the Mountains," the protagonist calls her husband "Oblomov" behind his back. I looked it up, and Oblomov is the titular protagonist of an Ivan Goncharov novel, whom the synopsis describes as "the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man." ??⚰
Julia and the Bazooka | 
