Из затянутых паутиной дней в воскресной школе звучат ветхозаветные слова: «У саранчи нет царя, но выступает вся она стройно».
All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten fe...
Violins, horns, drums, speeches—a mouth against a microphone in some faraway yet simultaneous evening—the sorcery of it holds him rapt.
I don’t want to make trouble, Madame. Isn’t doing nothing a kind of troublemaking? Doing nothing is doing nothing. Doing nothing is as good as collaborating.
It is cut, polished; for a breath, it passes between the hands of men
Her voice like a bright, clear window of sky. Her face a field of freckles. He thinks: I don't want to let you go.
You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing. The
Well, Fredde has all the best there at that school, all the
Once in the glass, as dark as blood, the Bordeaux seems almost as though it is a living thing. Von Rumpel takes pleasure in knowing that he is the only person in the world who will have the privilege...
Whose sisters listen to foreign radio stations? The woman
It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now. Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our
Potatoes at six o’clock, Marie. Mushrooms at three. Now?
What light shines at night! He never knew. Day will blind him.
Open your eyes and see what you can before they close forever.
We live in exceptional times.
The universe is full of fuel.
That winter arrived immediately, all at once -- you could watch it come. Twin curtains of white appeared in the north, white all the way to the sky, driving south like the end of all things. They drov...
Single candle. He slides the jack under
It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.
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