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The words dance like light across the page. Utterly lyrical.

“Alexander the Great and his mule-driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, and dissolved alike into atoms.”

“Love the discipline you know, and let it support you.”

I read the long introduction by the translator Gregory Hays, which was very helpful, indeed. I have a better context in which I can absorb this fascinating book.

Consummation is not what it’s all made out to be. Sometimes it’s the ease of intimacy, lying still in each other’s company. A profound scene in which two wretched people try to recapture an old moment.