June 3, 2008


Two quotes, the first one just for Cindy

“Through the shrubbery on the south side of the lawn, a path led to a walk lined with hazels, where grey squirrels were up to their mischief in the canopy of branches overhead.”

–W.G. Sebald (trans. by Michael Hulse), The Emigrants (Harvill, 1996, p. 6)

“I remember that Valery came to see me one afternoon at home, after eating, looking for me so we could take a walk. While I was getting ready, he took a sheet of my paper and wrote:

‘Story’

Once there was a writer ________ who wrote.

Valery”

–Enrique Vila-Matas, “Recuerdos inventados” (Recuerdos inventados, Anagrama, 1994, pp. 13-14)

posted by Cooper Renner in animals, beauty, books 

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5 Responses to “Two quotes, the first one just for Cindy”

  1. Cindy Scroggins on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Thank you, sir. Even though it’s Sebald, I hear this with a distinctly British accent.

    Deron, leave that squirrel alone.

  2. Deron Bauman on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Cindy, give me a second to finish this acorn and I’ll get back to you.

  3. Cindy Scroggins on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Deron, give me a second to load this gun and I’ll get back to you.

  4. Deron Bauman on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    nibble. nibble.

    pause.

    nervous nose twitching.

    pause.

    flickering tail.

  5. Cindy Scroggins on June 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Damn it, leave him alone! Daryl, are you in on this? I can’t leave either one of you alone for a minute.

    I’m telling your father.

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