"The colonization of Como girls was not a project for the weak-hearted, and didn't really ever pay off, but the soreness from walking late and slow and the trepidation of waiting seems to be very golden, as if I were snowblind, in those early days before I understood how to act and cared enough, as every year passes.

Here I learned Condé, Beckett, Vandermeer; the Velvets, sweatband pedal heroes, Stax; Punto, Crain, Thome; Apatow, Carpenter, Brakhage; bourbon, Grain Belt, Franzia. But the best lesson there was to always allow every idea to gasp a little and die a quiet cradle death, under that big dry moon. "

-pg. 58, "The Navel Stone Handbook Vol. One" Martin Snapple, 2028 (Gumshoe Press)