The Luminaries

• 熊仔面

  2024-04-10
  孤独的感觉很可怕，真正的孤独一人。当我不是孤身一人时，才喜欢享受孤寂的感觉。
• blissedge

  2017-03-23
  Like most excessively beautiful persons, he had studied his own reflection minutely and, in a way, knew himself from the outside best; he was always in some chamber of his mind perceiving himself from the exterior.
• blissedge

  2017-03-23
  The twelve men congregated in the smoking room of the Crown Hotel gave the impression of a party accidentally met. From the variety of their comportment and dress—frock coats, tailcoats, Norfolk jackets with buttons of horn, yellow moleskin, cambric, and twill—they might have been twelve strangers on a railway car, each bound for a separate quarter of a city that possessed fog and tides enough to divide them; indeed, the studied isolation of each man as he pored over his paper, or leaned forward to tap his ashes into the grate, or placed the splay of his hand upon the baize to take his shot at billiards, conspired to form the very type of bodily silence that occurs, late in the evening, on a public railway—deadened here not by the slur and clunk of the coaches, but by the fat clatter of th...
• 潋影

  2013-12-01
  A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.