‘As far as I can see,’ announced Lary, ‘every law of nature is suspended in this goddamn country.’
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'"As far as I can see," announced Lary, "every law of nature is suspended in this goddamn country."'
‘As far as I can see,’ announced Lary, ‘every law of nature is suspended in this goddamn country.’
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Redmond O’Hanlon is the author of Into the Heart of Borneo and In Trouble Again.
More about the author →‘The boy lay stretched out on a low wooden platform under an orange tree.’
‘Having spent two months travelling in the primary rain forests of Borneo, I thought that a four-month journey in the country between the Orinoco River in Venezuela and the Amazon in Brazil would pose no particular problem.’
‘James, resplendent in leopard skin and hornbill feathers, looked even more solemn than is his habit.’
‘At dawn the jungle was half-obscured in a heavy morning mist; and through the cloudy layers of rising moisture came the whooping call, the owl-like, clear, ringing hoot of the female Borneo Gibbon.’
'Harm that comes through the hands of those we love must be wrestled with; it does not simply disappear.'
‘I found that the torrent of inner voices I habitually heard began to organise itself in relation to the landscapes I passed through, the things I saw.’
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