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He hears his dead undergrad mentor quoting Mark Twain. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. “In the field. I seem to have gotten a little lost.”
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
his life, he has been homesick.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
An old man, I want only peace. The things of this world mean nothing. I know no good way to live and I can’t stop getting lost in my thoughts, my ancient forests. The wind that waves the pines loosens my belt.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
it all was somehow grander, more in the old spirit than the actual world. The world of German hegemony.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
When you emerge, London is still grey, the sky a single colour.
Caleb Azumah Nelson • Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021
What, I asked myself, said Austerlitz, might be the significance of the river never rising from any source, never flowing out into any sea but always back into itself, what was the meaning of veverka, the squirrel forever perched in the same position, or of the ivory-coloured porcelain group of a hero on horseback turning to look back, as his steed
... See moreW. G. Sebald • Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)
They remind us that we are all flitting through a lighted hall towards the great unknown,