"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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There comes a time in life when you realize that everything is a dream. Only those things that have been written down have any possibility of being real. That’s all that exists in the end: what’s been written down.
"....and there is a dream dreaming us." Xhabbo the Bushman, in the SUPERB novels by Van der Poste; "A Story Like The Wind", and the kick-ass sequel, "A Far Off Place"....L.B.
Do you have the new Salter? I just read (good) about it in Harper's?
ReplyDelete"....and there is a dream dreaming us." Xhabbo the Bushman, in the SUPERB novels by Van der Poste; "A Story Like The Wind", and the kick-ass sequel, "A Far Off Place"....L.B.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the new novel. I stumbled across this quote in what I believe was some publicity work for its release in this youtube video:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGKDKVQKMd0
He still writes on an IBM Selectric.
Though I appreciate (most) of his novels, my favorite work of his is the memoir "Burning the Days."
What a life