A tall window: five dozen inch-tall storm troopers march there, each toy man with a brown shirt and tiny red armband, some with flutes, some with drums, a few officers astride glossy black stallions.
Turn
There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing h...
Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.
Only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a
Himmelblau,
Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationali...
Lunatics
Wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world—what pretensions...
You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is.
He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells.
He sees what other people don’t. What the war did to dreamers.
Thirtieth of April, 1944, is a missive to Berlin. = NOTICE OF TERRORIST BROADCASTS IN CÔTES DU NORD WE BELIEVE SAINT-LUNAIRE OR DINARD OR SAINT-MALO
Inside each airplane, a bombardier peers through an aiming window and counts to twenty.
Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail.
Quantos labirintos existem neste mundo. Os galhos das árvores, as filigranas das raízes, a matriz dos cristais, as ruas que o pai dela tinha recriado nas maquetes. Labirintos nas saliências de conchas...
Assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.
Disintegrated. Does
Maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.
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