December 2010
19 posts
Voyage
I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages and found ourselves on a great ocean voyage: sailing through December, around the horn of Christmas and into the January Sea, and sailing on and on in a novel without a moral but one in which all the characters who died in the middle chapters make the sunsets near the book’s end more beautiful. —And someone is spreading a map upon a table,...
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Oh Spain, you totally get it.
Spanish: “No te peines, que en la foto no salís” (Don’t comb your hair, you’re not going to be in the picture): i.e., “don’t get too excited, this matter doesn’t concern you.”