“Shall I revise or rewriteMy October Symphony?...and change the dedicationfrom Revolution to Revelation?– Pet Shop Boys”

“Revolution flashed as revelationary as revelation had been revolutionary.”

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”

“For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.”

“Shopping is just another form of hunting. All fey are hunters, whether they admit it or not. It's in our nature, pet, nothing unnatural about it.”