Dec
15
Saturday Miscellanies
Filed Under Feuilletons |
On Books (Passing of Time):
“What would you think, fair reader, of a problem such as this - to write a book which should be sense for your own generation, nonsense for the next, should revive into sense for the next after that, but again became nonsense for the fourth; and so on by alternate successions, sinking into night or blazing into day, like the Sicilian river Arethusa, and the English river Mole - or like the undulating motions of a flattened stone which children cause to skim the breast of a river, now diving below the water, now grazing its surface, sinking heavily into darkness, rising buoyantly into light, through a long vista of alternations”
- Thomas De Quincey, from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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On Flying (Getting Lost):
“Come to Rio, oh come to Rio.
Grow a mustache and change your bio.
Here the rich get richer, the poor get poorer,
here each old man is a Sturmbahnführer.”
- Joseph Brodsky, the 1st stanza from “Rio Samba”
(Bottom images by: Shaun Tan from The Arrival & Chris Ware from Jimmy Corrigan)
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