Eye & the Spy: Some Haphazardly Clustered Quotes & Notes

… a sort of floating, disembodied eye which sees all manner of marvellous phenomena without being greatly affected by them … conditions, atmospheres, appearances, and intangible things of that kind …

(Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Selected Letters 1929-1931, Sauk City (Wisconsin), Arkham House, 1971, p. 436.)

… life, a dream—A spy in someone else’s body, where nobody knows who’s spying on whom—A beholding eye, a recording eye, shifting from ordinary things to wondrous things—Life, a dream, perhaps …

I am not «I am» but just a spy in someone’s body pretending these sandlot games, kids in the cow field near St. Rota’s Chuch…

(Jack Kerouac, Vanity of Duluoz, quoted in William Seward Burroughs, «Remembering Jack Kerouac», in The Adding Machine: Selected Essays, New York, Seaver Books, 1986, p. 177.)

… a spy in ye house of horror, a beam shooting out from the glowing round screen on the vast forehead of a statue, an eye staring pellucid hazes which ripple, becloud, become clear, till images are coming, then suddenly fade out to other images, & so on …

The writer’s world, a dream made for the moment actual on paper …

(William Seward Burroughs, «Remembering Jack Kerouac», in The Adding Machine: Selected Essays, New York, Seaver Books, 1986, p. 180)

… writing the fleeting moment in which looming shapes come forward through diaphanous mists …

I'm a spy in the house of love.
I know the dream that you're dreaming of.
I know the word that you long to hear.
I know your deepest secret fear.

(Jim Morrison, «The Spy»)

… a gleaming fleshy flower unfolds & waves & wavers, a nethergate opens …

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