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“Shame had entered the garden, making him more painfully estranged from his own body”
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
“A partridge settled at the base of a holm oak. It was garden out of time, a garden against time, continually occupying the present tense, insinuating itself into the future by way of each new visitor, I understood how it worked now, how gardens self-seed.”
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
“I'm talking about how we - and I mean here the "we" of people who have experienced some kind of trauma, which I think is a very large category indeed - how we manage the serious burden that we carry, how we contain it, what spent fuel pool or dry cask storage we improvise for material that is even now still leaking its lethal isotopes.”
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think 'not bad, they're okay', and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it, and they just they turn into something so beautiful...”
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Kausambhi’s 2025 Year in Books
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