Gass

Famous quotes containing the word gass:

“Before and After. Yes, with a little work, they can be saved. It is the present, the immediate moment—the During—that is doomed.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)

“So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)

“He says so ... and he says so ... Like zeroes, say-sos don’t sum.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)