Irreconcilables: he should stay here and conform; he should - not stay here (remembering no time when he was not here, Harley could frame the second idea no more clearly than that). Another point of pain was that 'here' and 'not here' seemed to be not two halves of a homogeneous whole, but two dissonances.

They came, by what means he did not know, from outside, the vast abstraction that none of them had ever seen. He had a mental picture of a starry void in which…

Jagger had gone through there. Harley also went through. Somewhere he did not know, somewhere whose existence he had not guessed.: Somewhere that wasn't the ho…

Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question: Where was 'here'? He shut that one down sh…

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

My choice is the old world - my choice, my need, my life.

Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.