From the thrift store on South we lugged the old thirty-dollar armchair past the late summer idlers to the car, strapped it to the back and carried it off to a new seventh-floor dorm home. It graced the corner beside the rug, swirls of green and orange velvet print made louder under a cheap lamp,Continue reading “The Chair”
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Book Ramblings: The Last Encounter
Sandor Marai was a Hungarian novelist born in 1900 in Kassa, a small town which now belongs to Czech-Republic. He spent years in exile in Germany and France in the 1920’s until he immigrated to the United States, and the subsequent ban of his work in Hungary caused his novels to be forgotten for manyContinue reading “Book Ramblings: The Last Encounter”
Relic
The limestone angel was Michael the one on the sepulcher and there also under glass (robbed of foot, almost faceless) and through each figment of love or hate which was carried: illuminated, washed out by each dark corner you likened to lust he is that creature in the tapestry a woman at war, the oneContinue reading “Relic”
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