"In dreams one often sees the house of one's childhood. Years and years have passed, one's own children have grown up and gone out into the world; but in dreams the house of childhood is fresh and strong, the smell of its closets, the creak of its floors, the light through its windows and the shadows of leaves—everything resonates in the sleeping mind. Perhaps tonight one will find the lost toy or see more clearly something only half-glimpsed long ago."

—Russell Hoban #SA4QE

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

—Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973)

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"The way I see it, Shakespeare didn't invent Caliban; Caliban invented Shakespeare (and Sigmund Freud and one or two others). Caliban is one of those hungry ideas, always looking for someone to word him into being so he can have another go and maybe win Miranda this time or next time. Caliban is a *necessary* idea. I can imagine The Tempest without Ferdinand but not without Caliban."

— Russell Hoban #SA4QE

Artwork: Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban dancing, by Johann Heinrich Ramberg.

As we ate and drank it seemed to both of us that the evening was shaping nicely. I couldn’t remember a time when I had drawn so well or felt so good; I wondered if I’d ever draw that well and feel that good again. Happiness can be unsettling, like catching a baby that someone has thrown out of a window.

—Russell Hoban, Amaryllis Night & Day (2001)

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…swimming, swimming, the eye held by the sun, no sharks in the mind, nothing in the mind.

—Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary (1975)

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You can't explain the butterfly. 🦋

#SA4QE 2023; in honor of Russell Hoban's 98th birthday.

@daveawl “Our woal life is a idear we dint think of nor we dont know what it is.”#SA4QE

This Saturday the 4th of Feb is the 98th anniversary of Russell Hoban's birth! Depending on where you are, it might already be Hoban Day when you read this. Which means it's time once again for the celebration known as the SA4QE.

Every 4th February, readers around the world observe Russ's birthday by writing favorite quotations from his books on sheets of yellow paper & leaving them in public places—and/or sharing them on social media with the hashtag #SA4QE.

More info: http://www.russellhoban.org/sa4qe

This quotation from Russell Hoban's book of essays The Moment Under the Moment has been on my mind a lot lately.

"The people who run the world now were children once. What went wrong?"

#RussellHoban #SA4QE

This quotation from Russell Hoban's book of essays The Moment Under the Moment has been on my mind a lot lately.

"The people who run the world now were children once. What went wrong?"

#RussellHoban #SA4QE

@tokoloshe Are you familiar with the “Slickman A4 Quotation Event,” aka #SA4QE? Each year on Russ’s birthday (4 Feb) people leave quotes from his books on yellow A4 paper in public places.

http://russellhoban.org/sa4qe