So good. From The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.
Month: June 2019
On Listening to Some Poetry
I was looking at a mountain and listening to the low hum of traffic and hearing the thin and scratchy voice of a poet reading his poem
Maybe it was about bees and maybe it was about soldiers and maybe it was about me listening to that poem in that moment, where flowers and green things and something papillated, probably kiwi fruit
There are some clouds in the sky and that ever present flag and water and the trees and constantly moving cars and bikers and walkers and nothing’s static at all, not even that mountain, probably
A stork? yes, somehow a stork flew by, it’s curvular gullet so strange and elegant and out of place here where I live
The poem’s been over for a while now I’ve just been thinking about rewinding
Or maybe not
So that’s the trick!
From The Man Without Qualities
One of my favorite chapter titles
It reads:
A CHAPTER THAT MAY BE SKIPPED BY ANYONE NOT PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED BY THINKING AS AN OCCUPATION
From The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil.