The old self will not survive the extreme temperatures of this remoteness

The operational logic of paganism is such that when a certain local god fails to deliver its graces, one can always switch to an alternative deity

These varied images (of flame, ignition, and fever) cannot help but capture the visual glory of environmental ruin

What does it mean to speak of beauty at the end of things? Is there not wonder at the sight of miraculous catastrophe?

They appear as hallucinatory vistas, these sites of devastated terrain

There are paintings that go beyond their frames.

The drums have an irrefutable connection to thunder. They both reverberate, or relentlessly vibrate, and in this way extend into space

Who is to say that the snake did not materialize from the interiority of the minister? That it did not curl out as the very modality of his ethnocentric delirium

a scene deliberately rehearsed to make the protagonist seem naïve when faced with the stored sounds on the disk.

The circumstances of exile are translated into constant movement, translation, and borrowing (that seems more like stealing).