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“Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel called upon to sing, because of that transcendent impulse. But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms.”
― Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry

“So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.”
― Ben Lerner, The Hatred of Poetry

“He’s dying!â€� Doctor Cove, one of the ship’s two medical officers told me, looking at his med-scanner as he kneeled at the broken body of the only living Corsair on the black ship. I remember the look on his face as he told me â€� which seemed more to be puzzlement than actual concern. The man was a Corsair after all, and had injuries I could see, but he was conscious, and none of them looked fatal. But then, I’m no doctor. I never was any good at healing anything â€� and my job was doing the opposite, and I admit I’m pretty good at it. Always have been.”
― Christina Engela, Space Vacation

“The best school you can have is where you have the actual supplies in hand.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Progress through truth.”
― Steven Magee

“Triumph through truth.”
― Steven Magee

“Cybergothic is [...] guided by schizoanalysis in marking actuality as primary repression or collapsed potential”
― Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987â€�2007

“Possibilities are only copies of actual things which are retroactively given a priproty they do not have. They are infertile copies and resemble the actual thing perfectly. By contrast, the virtual is the productive pole of the process that goes from the virtual to the actual; it is not determined by resemblance with the actual thing. Bodies implicate the virtual and when they are separated from it, they retain 'only the disincarnated appearance of a pure actuality (representation)”
― Daniela Voss

“If you were nervous during your time on the show, you didn't show it. You still prioritize flashy decoration over the essential foundations now, but you were never openly rocked by criticism. You took it on the chin and until that last fucking disaster"---a tinge of heat lit up his tone; clearly the unicorn hoof did still rankle---"you listened to all of us and your bakes improved accordingly."
Good grief.
Apparently, bread-baking Sid was right on the money about the alien abductions. She didn't know what they'd suddenly done with the original Dominic, but cheers for the substitute.
Sylvie could feel a reluctantly pleased flush creeping into her cheeks.
"To the extent of your ability," Pod Dominic finished.”
― Lucy Parker, Battle Royal

“Many people evacuated out of the predicted hurricane Ian landfall area and into the actual landfall area!”
― Steven Magee

“But on this we agree: that to tell a story about the past is to tell a story about the present. To recount a fantasy, a story of the imaginary, is also a way of recounting a tale about the actual.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights