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Ro An
She has many names. The Grimms call her Aschenputtel, but she is firmly Cinderella in English. In our centrally heated homes today, when few children have ever seen a cinder or know what one is, Cinderella just sounds like a pretty name, but I thought it needed a little context.
PHILIP PULLMAN • Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
no one told me about proust
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The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw