Sublime

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” I am sorry that I killed the fish though, he thought. Now the bad time is coming and I do not even have the harpoon. The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only bette

The station at Bonnieux has been closed for more than forty years, and the path that leads to it is potholed and neglected. From the road there is nothing to see—no signs, no menus. We had passed by dozens of times, assuming that the building was unoccupied, not knowing that a crowded car park was hidden behind the trees. We found a space between t

The moment love stops growing, it begins to die.

Orhan Bey, s’il vous plaît, les dernières paroles que je souhaite voir transcrire dans le livre sont les suivantes, ne les oubliez pas… — Je n’oublierai pas. Il embrassa avec amour la photo de Füsun et la rangea soigneusement dans la poche supérieure de sa veste. Puis, il m’adressa un sourire victorieux : — Que tout le monde le sache, j’ai mené une

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak.

“I’ll kill him though,” he said. “In all his greatness and his glory.” Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.

William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.

‘Dear Thomas,’ he wrote, ‘I can’t begin to tell you how swell you were the other