“The thing about Minette was that she was no kid, that she was–how else to put it–a woman, a strapping woman with presence; clear-eyed, mature, with a red-brown saddle of freckles across the bridge of her nose; Matty thinking, Does it still just come down to that? Eyes and vibes and freckles across a strongly defined nose? Yes and no, yes and no, but, yeah, yes, of course, until the deathbed; it’s the visual triggers that kick off the daydreaming.”

                     --Richard Price, Lush Life, 2008

“HE SWIMS…AND THE THOUGHTS THAT TRAIL HIM–PAST BATTLES FORMING PRESENT MEMORIES–THESE THOUGHTS ENLARGE LIKE BALLOONS FORMED FROM THE BUBBLES CREATED BY HIS OWN CHURNING MOVEMENTS THOUGHTS THAT THEN TRANSFORM INTO SLOW-BURNING RAGE.”

                     --Steve Skeates, SUB-MARINER, Vol. 1, No. 72, 
                            "From the Void It Came," 1974

(Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”)