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But neither Agáta nor Vĕra nor I myself emerged from the past. Sometimes it seemed as if the veil would part; I thought, for one fleeting instant, that I could feel the touch of Agáta’s shoulder or see the picture on the front of the Charlie Chaplin comic which Vĕra had bought me for the journey, but as soon as I tried to hold one of these
... See moreW. G. Sebald • Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)
“Und wenn ich geh, dann geht nur ein Teil von mir.”
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
Der vielleicht auffälligste Fall eines Gefühls von Entfremdung und Heimatverlust ist die von Glenn Albrecht so bezeichnete »Solastalgie«. Darunter versteht er den Schmerz einer Person, die miterleben muss, wie ihre Heimat beziehungsweise ihr Lebensraum zerstört wird.
Eva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)
ECW Press • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
The beauty of a landscape resides in its melancholy. —Ahmet Rasim
Orhan Pamuk • Istanbul (Vintage International)
Even solitary trees were located with infallible accuracy by the airborne beetles which spread the disease. One of the most perfect trees I have ever seen was an almost two hundred-year-old elm that stood on its own in a field not far from our house. About one hundred feet tall, it filled an immense space. I recall that, after most of the elms in
... See moreWinfried Georg Sebald • The Rings of Saturn
He finds the words in a book: A tree is a passage between earth and sky. He messes up passage.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
stymied