Beautiful Sentences For Housewarming

January '11 Expressionismus

La Trama Celeste
Adolfo Bioy Casares
[1948]


I like worlds of Bioy Casares because they operate with its own logic.


Paulina memory of the future kings
The idol

Indeed, if not doubt the sincerity of the bishop, there is no reason why a shell protefio give away the idol of nails which sought to destroy, why not simply destroyed, why the evil face left uncovered ... I watched him with arrest. I understood why the statue that looked blankly and atrocious: he had no eyes.

The Celestial Plot

What were and why not know who he was? Why Why so insulted, why pretended it was not Argentina? He was perplexed and angered .(...) He spent the night awake, between bouts of anger, moments when he was determined to face the situation calmly, and violent reactions that refused to "play that game absurd"

The other maze
snow Perjury

been years since that interview, however, to recall it today, again I feel the same regret and it sucks. Berger must have been a symbol, its mere memory as an incessant spell of these horrors, but so inscrutable is the development of our feelings that man became the most conspicuous of my friends ...

Timbuktu Paul Auster

[1999]



Novel "nice" and original Auster, where the narrator is a dog, Mr Bones. I went to a pre-9/11 Auster because the last I was overwhelmed, especially the fiasco of Man in the Dark. The last two can wait a while and adds some more. It is sometimes necessary.

Returning to the book in question, originality has its price, because it involves many compromises. The result is well made but I would say that in book 5 for the missing weight.

What was a poor dog to do? Mr Bones had been with Willy since his earliest days as a pup, and by now it was next to impossible for him to imagine a world that did not have his master in it.

Mr Bones had nothing against Baltimore per se. It smelled no worse than any other city he'd camped in over the years, but even though he understood the purpose of the trip, it grieved to him to think that a man could choose to spend his last moments on Earth in a place he'd never been to before.