this from William Blake… and Walt Whitman… Whitman: “Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes? / It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” and Cy Twombly… Twombly: “Paint in a sense is a certain infantile thing. …
Here’s the pretty cover of the new Spanish edition of La chica con pies de cristal. It’s available from Ediciones Salamandra and they’ve done a lovely job of it. I send them a big, heartfelt gracias.
This was the time of night when things seemed unreal, when a thought that could be dismissed in daylight might take hold of the guts and not be uprooted until morning… He’d dreamed of lightning striking beaches and fusing sand grains into glass. – from The Girl with Glass Feet Much of the fun of …
St Hauda’s Land is home to many beasts and birds, as well as to rare creatures found nowhere else in the world. This little bestiary considers what some of them mean to the novel. Narwhals In the water huge, elegant bodies moved. A narwhal pod. Funny, she thought, how invisible such huge creatures could make …
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The wind was so icy that the frost took a firm grip, but what a sight there was when the sun came up! All the trees and shrubs were covered in rime; it looked like an entire forest of white corals, as if all the branches were heaped with dazzling white flowers. The infinitely numerous …
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