Russell Hoban on Granta.com
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The Online Edition
The Devil’s Kitchen
Russell Hoban
‘I'll now describe this artefact as precisely as I can because I want to make it perfectly clear that when I bought it there was no reason for me to think that it was anything more than what it appeared to be.’
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The Online Edition
The Man with the Dagger
Russell Hoban
‘I thought the story would be the most likely place to look for Dahlmann, so I went there.’
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The Online Edition
A Conversation with the Head of Orpheus
Russell Hoban
‘Far, far away in the night are live human beings whose breathing can be heard as they speak, and they're looking at their illuminated dials as I look at mine at this end of the darkness that curves with the night miles to the heave and swell of the ocean dawn.’
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The Online Edition
One Less Octopus at Paxos
Russell Hoban
‘She fired the speargun, then held up the spear with an octopus writhing on it. It was a mottled pinky-brown and its head was about as big as two clasped hands.’
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The Online Edition
The Boat Train
Russell Hoban
‘The train wheels, now authorized to take up their song of distance, clacked and clattered their traditional shanty of miles.’
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The Online Edition
Pan Lives
Russell Hoban
‘The child by the window is not thinking of the brevity of life, the child has as yet no idea of it.’
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Issue 8
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Issue 8
Fragments of a Lament for Thelonious Monk
Russell Hoban
‘Always the slant rhyme with Thelonious, that was his Thelonious assault on the grey and civil devils of the ordinary. Walk tall and slanty, Thelonious; you live.’
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Issue 8
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Issue 8
Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road
Russell Hoban
‘Music is a puissant recaller of time past; music is memory's sister and for its very life relies on memory to hold in our minds the passage of sounds through time.’
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Issue 8
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Issue 8
Footplacers, London Transport, Owls, Wincer-Boise
Russell Hoban
‘All those footsteps have been gathered up into the footplacer, all those goings are gone.’
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Issue 3
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Issue 3
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
‘Ther leader he wer a big black and red spottit dog he come forit a littl like he ben going to make a speach or some thing’.
