A forest in the fog

"Pleasure is present at all stages: the fog of the first twenty pages, chilled and dripping and quiet; the context and accumulated knowledge that pierce the fog like sunlight, making rainbows between the trees; and finally the flashes of clear sky on a third reading, when memory finds the connections previously missed. Pleasure is also in the language itself, whether understood or not."

Sessily Watt considers Cloud & Ashes, over at Bookslut.

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