I continued to spend the long years since childhood cultivating solitude, pursuing silence to its ever-receding horizon, a pursuit that demanded a particular quality of attention, a self-forgetfulness on my part that would enable me to bring to bear the most painstaking, the most careful consideration to the other, to treat the other as the […]

Enough time goes by and it is as if old things never happened. Things once fresh, immediate, terrible, receding away into old God’s time, like the walkers walking so far along Killiney Strand that, as you watch them, there is a moment when they are only a black speck, and then they’re gone. Maybe old […]

St Valentine’s Book of Rhetoric, give me a precise and elegant metaphor to describe what those eyes of Capitu were like. How can I describe, without abandoning the dignity of classical style, what they were and what they did to me? Perhaps they were undertow eyes. Yes, undertow. That’s what they suggested to me. They […]

Tämän retken jälkeen ei kuitenkaan tule enää uusia, tämän retken jälkeen en enää tutki meriä. Ja ehkä siksi rauha täyttää minut. Elämäni on ollut muuttomatka, jolla ei ole ollut päämäärää ja joka on siis ollut mieltä vailla. Olen lähtenyt liikkeelle yhä uudelleen ilman syytä, vain liikkumisen takia, ja sydämeni on särkynyt siksi lukemattomia kertoja. On […]