Status Updates From The Bridge on the Drina

So, on the kapia, between the skies, the river and the hills, generation after generation learnt not to mourn overmuch what the troubled waters had borne away. They entered there into the unconcious philosophy of the town; that life was an incomprehensible marvel, since it was incessantly wasted and spent, yet none the less it lasted and endured ”like the bridge on the Drina”. (p. 90)

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Fucking hell, I have never read a book that has made me SO physically sick before. I could genuinely throw up

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