3/ - firmly on my feet in that vast and anonymous London. Even my voice was as steady and warm as it could ever be: 'A pity to waste that beer. I'll get you another,' I said." — Dambudzo Marechera, The Black Insider.

2/ - and cold and furious. It seemed an icy and merciless wire of eternity had suddenly sprung from the chill geography of living and struck deeply into the life inside me. The sudden blow of it straightened me up and I was standing over him for the first time, -

2/ "Darwin noted that the elongation of the growing apex of either a shoot, or a root, did not take place in a straightline but pursued a spiral course. Thoughts perhaps do not think in straightlines." — Dambudzo Marechera, Black Sunlight.

The shared cigarette and snide remarks
About how Oxford sits ill on these frail shoulders
And the poetry, the world-view a pose
A paltry reactionary proposition."

— Dambudzo Marechera, excerpt from 'My Arms Vanished Mountains', Cemetery of Mind.

2/2 "She found me wedged tightly between past and present. I held my breath. I held my thoughts. I held my emotions tightly. Soon, a single footprint appeared. Language." — Dambudzo Marechera, Black Sunlight.

"It was in their thinking insane to pursue something that did not generate money. It was usually no use trying to explain the high and passionate understructure of the 'need' to create." — Dambudzo Marechera, MindBlast.