December 2011
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“Truly, though our element is time,
We are not suited to the long perspectives...”
– Philip Larkin from Reference Back
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“He stood there swaying on his sticky feet.
His head was bowed, the light hurt...”
– David Constantine from Caspar Hauser: A Poem in Nine Cantos
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“Fear of discovery had only been a game, because not for an instant had she been...”
– Stig Dagerman from ‘Men of Character’ in The Games of Night (trans. Naomi Walford)
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“They like shady rooms,
Peeling wallpaper,
Cracks on the ceiling,
Flies on the...”
– Charles Simic from ‘Unmade Beds’
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“I am not asserting that literally everything is a symbol and only a symbol, but...”
– Alan Paskow from The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation
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“One might say that in a certain sense it is the living members of old families...”
– Marguerite Yourcenar from Alexis
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“A heedful silence, [ ] a living silence.”
– Marguerite Yourcenar from Alexis
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“I always imagine them at nightfall, in the dusk of a slum or vacant lot, in that...”
– Jorge Luis Borges from Selected Nonfictions
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“And the deer -
how beautiful they are,
as though their bodies did not impede...”
– Louise Gluck from ‘Messengers’
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“The visionary glance is lit up by the rapidly departing past. That is, the...”
– Walter Benjamin from ‘Theses’
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“We say symbol rather than metaphor because of its deeper significance, because...”
– Wallace Fowlie from Mallarme
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“There is always I suppose a second novel, the reader’s, who is imagining things...”
– Padgett Powell from an interview with Michael Kimball about his work The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
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