Sublime

Paris, where he hobnobbed with many other American expatriates, Fitzgerald among them.

Un hombre los siguió. Tampoco volvió a ser visto en Leadville. Era el extraño nuevo amigo de los tarahumaras, Shaggy, quien pronto sería conocido como Caballo Blanco, el vagabundo solitario de las Sierras Altas.

Max himself would become a character in Basso’s most successful book, The View from Pompey’s Head.)

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop “Leaving One” by Ralph Angel “A Cat in an Empty Apartment” by Wisława Szymborska “Apples” by Deborah Digges “Michiko Nogami (1946–1982)” by Jack Gilbert “Eating Alone” by Li-Young Lee “The Potter” by Peter Levitt “Black Dog, Red Dog” by Stephen Dobyns “The Word” by Mark Cox “Death” by Maurycy Szymel “This” by Czeslaw

Using notes from Captain Frederick Bailey, a British secret agent who’d stumbled across a hidden valley in Tibet in the 1930s while reconnoitering with rebel groups in Asia, Fisher helped locate the fabled Kintup Falls, a thundering cascade that conceals the entrance to the deepest canyon on the planet. From there, Fisher moled his way into lost

British explorer Archibald Pembroke

as if he, too, might have another hundred years or two to document what time hides forever in plain sight.

Mince, élégant, affectionnant à la manière américaine des cols amidonnés blancs sur des chemises à fines rayures, bon vivant, volontiers gastronome, amateur de londrès et de cocktails, fréquentant les bars anglais et se frottant volontiers au Tout-Paris, il affichait des idées avancées qu’il soutenait avec juste ce qu’il fallait de condescendance

The boy thinks: Something slow and purposeful wants to turn every human building into soil.