Sublime

corona

The record is over, the needle lifts up and returns to its cradle.

Austerlitz, there was no more movement at all apart from the whitewash peeling off the walls and the spiders spinning their threads, scuttling on crooked legs across the floorboards, or hanging expectantly in their webs.

Das blöde Gerede und das Glotzen und das Grinsen, etwas anderes hatte er nicht mehr erlebt, entweder die Glotzaugen der Kühe oder das Grinsen der Besoffenen, und ein großer Unterschied war da nicht, nur daß er zuletzt kaum noch in einen Stall, dafür aber um so öfter ins Gasthaus kam.

“Lachrimae”

Hitchcockian protagonist,

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned