Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomasis an English postmodernist author. She has written nine novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent...
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divorce would-be possibility
Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.
sky colour
The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
book thinking stories
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
real book ideas
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.
stories want ifs
If something wants to be a story, it will be.
real mean stuff-happens
In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
sometimes grownups
Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.
wall church posters
Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.
mind firsts facts
I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.
wonder ifs has-beens
I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.
writing trying fiction
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
memories water arguing
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
way metaphor mathematics
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
eye light horizon
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.