Monday 26 February 2018

Julien Gracq: A Balcony in the Forest


On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.


This stretch through the fogbound forest gradually lulled Grange into his favorite daydream; in it he saw an image of his life: all that he had he carried with him; twenty feet away, the world grew dark, perspectives blurred, and there was nothing near him but this close halo of warm consciousness, this nest perched high above the vague earth.

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