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Je me sens vide comme cette mer sans soleil, sans poissons, sans oiseaux, morte malgré cette garce de houle qui secoue le bateau et fait souffrir la voilure pour achever de m'effriter le moral. Il faut tenter de recoller tout ça, ne pas mollir, régler les écoutes vingt fois par heure, oublier la belle bonnette déchirée hier dans un grain, sortir à
... See moreBernard Moitessier • La longue route : Seul entre mers et ciels (CLASSIQUES ARTH) (French Edition)
between them. All that genetic information passed from
Elif Shafak • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
In her journal, in what’s now Namibia, Marian had written: I’d like to think I will remember this particular moon, seen from the particular angle of this balcony on this night, but if I forget, I will never know that I’ve forgotten, as is the nature of forgetting. I’ve forgotten so much—almost all I’ve seen. Experience washes over us in great waves
... See moreMaggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
Litani River
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
... See moreAnd for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Now I was distressed that nothing of me would endure through time.
Elena Ferrante • The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four
people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
What is a country but a life sentence?