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I like this particular passage

 
 
Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 09:17 pm
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now reveled itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.


Thanks for reading.
 
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 09:26 pm
You've been reading in Walter's sailor diary again?
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 09:35 pm
"rave mute as amber". Nice. But lonely feeling.
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 09:50 pm
Tai Chi wrote:
"rave mute as amber". Nice. But lonely feeling.


That was written from a child's perspective and was meant to be lonely feeling.
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 09:54 pm
Did you write this? (unpublished I mean) Or is it from something that if I was better read I would recognize?
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 10:04 pm
A Death in the Family?
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 10:04 pm
That is correct, edgar.
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 10:08 pm
James Agee.
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 10:48 pm
It's a little wordy.
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 10:54 pm
Sorry, there are no pictures in the book.
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Reply Wed 7 Mar, 2007 11:06 pm
Awesome!
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