Luis Felipe Fabre > Quotes

“sólo un instante, sólo un colibrí dura el hombre aquí en la tierra.”
― Luis Felipe Fabre, Cabaret Provenza (Centzontle)

“And though no sound did she emit, the silence began to slip off key with the painful spasms of Philomela’s futile exertions. Then she belched bloodcurdling an amorphous mass of sound. Not a voice, but the ghost of a voice that bemoaned the long-lost words that gave it meaning. At times a heartrending, disjointed, spectral wail, at times a cacophonous echo, a ghastly arrhythmic hiccough, the miscarried facsimile of a primitive utterance, the clamorous failure of a phrase attempted, a simian moan.”
― Luis Felipe Fabre, Recital of the Dark Verses

“With their saws arrived the carpenters, and with their clippers the seamstresses, and with their needles the noblewomen, and with their razors the barbers did arrive. And the people arrived in uncountable throngs at the ready with blades suited to their office and, standing but notwithstanding their office and standing, all desired the same thing which was their slice of saint.”
― Luis Felipe Fabre, Recital of the Dark Verses

“And from the darkness did emerge a pair of eyes. Dull and pale and blind like the eyes of a statue but rounder and more agog as if from their hollows had they been released. But eyes were they not, he gleaned, they were nipples followed by a huge, handsome pair of tits. And also did emerge, in the pale starlight as the veil of clouds briefly lifted, an arm, a neck, the soft curve of a belly, the waist of a beauty denuded and dismembered like a statue emerging from antiquity, and a mouth.”
― Luis Felipe Fabre, Recital of the Dark Verses