ah yes, this is when Frobisher and Dhondt were driving, and Frobisher noticed how they were driving so fast the trees blurred into one that seemed to go on forever. Then they ran over what they believed was a woman; but turned out it was a poor pheasant.
here’s some of the text yes:
“Individual elms blurred into a single tree repeated to infinity, like a spinning top. The needle was nudging top speed when a form like a running madwoman ran out smack in front of us - she hid the windscreen and spun over our heads. Heart popped like a gunshot, I can tell you! Dhondt braked, the road tilted us one way, shrugged us the other, the tires screamed and singed the air with hot rubber. We had run out of infinity… Dhondt and I jumped out and ran back - to see a monster pheasant, flapping it’s broken wings. Dhondt blew out an elaborate oath in Sanskrit or something, and gave a ha! of relief that he ahdn’t killed someone that also expressed dismay at having killed something”
“I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.”
(-Robert Frobisher, “Cloud Atlas”)
“Death is cold and hard and tight, and life is loose. So when you’re alive, you have to embrace being loose and open and free and engaged with things.” - Ben Whishaw
sometimes when i’m alone I’ll just randomly start quoting whole Cloud Atlas scenes aloud but not only that like I’ll do horrid attempts in acting and talking like the characters and yeah this is rlly bad bc today i did it in a parking lot and some cute guy overheard me and WELL, SHITE
Not much at all really? a few years back I used it a lot, now I sort of use it for all the posts I marvel that aren’t Beatles nor Ben Whishaw/Cloud Atlas related.
I check everything around the same time though (messages and published queue posts)
