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1 " Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate... "
― Anne Carson , Nox
2 " This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends. "
3 " People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain that's always thinking. A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else. "
― Douglas Coupland , Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lectures)