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“My writing is quantum writing. Do you know of the quantum bullet? The quantum bullet, when it's fired, leaves not one hole but two. That's how my writing is.”
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Wilson Harris

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“(Breaking) ritual habit, ritual normality that seals our eyes and ears…you can advance, see things you never saw before, move out of boundaries that have been a prison.”

Wilson Harris

“The solid morning mist began to disintegrate and dark shoulders of rock appeared in the water giving the illusion of swimmers, reaching from bank to bank, dispersing from themselves wreaths of snakes ...”

Wilson Harris

“The flute sings of an ancient riverbead one hundred fathoms deep, far below the Potaro River that runs to the Waterfall. Two rivers then. The visible Potaro runs to the Waterfall. The invisible stream...”

Wilson Harris

“Once cannot tame the voices of the flute, voices of such uncanny lightness yet miracle of being that they are able to tilt the two rivers, the visible and the invisible rivers, into diagrammatic disco...”

Wilson Harris

“There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality […] open the partialities and biases of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.”

Wilson Harris

Books
Palace of the PeacockPalace of the PeacockThe Tree of the SunThe Tree of the SunThe Guyana QuartetThe Guyana QuartetTradition, the Writer and SocietyTradition, the Writer and SocietyThe Harris LettersThe Harris Letters
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