Shawn Huelle

quotations from what I've been reading completely removed from context

"The lived life constructs and uncovers the written life as discovery and return, as to bury it now according to the perfect image of the day it will be recovered."

"The sand stands for my love to the sea and to the countries I have never visited with my parents and my wish to explore them in the future and get a new impression of endlessness."

"a puberty of grief"

"Completeness is always a process undergoing revision. At every point, the book can appear finished. Each return of an image in the project of the book re-closes that image. Closure furthermore depends on failure to notice the blind spot; anosognosia, the unawareness of the existence of illness, or of a lack, gap, or absence in the picture of reality. Thus at every moment, I confuse what I know of my life with everything there is to know of a life. The act of learning, of reinterpreting the hieroglyph, insists itself on me in the form of rupture, interruption, disequilibrium. Learning punches a hole in the fabric of reality. This is the accident of the encounter. Intelligence comes after, and reweaves a new pattern."

"These [hiking boots] represent my deep attachment to nature, my fascination with the inexorable and often mysterious laws that govern the sometimes tiny changes occurring all around us and the contentment I feel after having laboriously scaled a lonely mountain top now being able to enjoy the stupendous views that make one wonder about one's proper place in the uncaring vastness of nature."

"a pulse sounds like a footprint"

"I am the accident of my memory. Memory then takes the form of a minor trauma, a jolt to itself, as the scrub jay knows where the pine nut lies, but not exactly what the pine nut is, until the shock of re-encounter, and the folding back of time upon itself."

"Objects tend to be very stubborn in their duty to be objects."

"A detail is a certain kind of faith"