Black Objects

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or objects:

“An oblong puddle inset in the coarse asphalt; like a fancy footprint filled to the brim with quicksilver; like a spatulate hole through which you can see the nether sky. Surrounded, I note, by a diffuse tentacled black dampness where some dull dun dead leaves have stuck. Drowned, I should say, before the puddle had shrunk to its present size.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)