On the Calculation of Volume III Quotes

“Katselen ympärilleni, ja koko ajan on jotain löydettävää. Se ei lopu. Sitä poimii ja poimii, ja kohta kun polku kääntyy, löytyy lisää.”
― Solvej Balle, Om udregning af rumfang III

“Are the notes of the cello merely an instrument’s empty shells? Is music nothing more than debris echoing through the air? And the scents of the garden on a summer evening”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume III

“Henry believed that anyone paying attention to the world around them would inevitably become interested in the Romans—or at least in the fall of the Roman Empire. For who could doubt that we live in a time which resembles theirs? That we are the Romans”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume III

“There are open windows, breadless birds, lost routines.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume III

“There is something alarming about the thought of being bound to a random person. There is the certainty of having gained a travel companion, but also the sense of having been assigned some of the responsibility for their baggage.”
― Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume III