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Flaubert’s parrot

I actually cannot describe how excited I am for this

How has E Shafak not got a Nobel prize yet😭

Colours

Samuel West birder, vet, narrator in one evening

“They do not realize the path I was allotted at birth was so narrow, so unbearably tedious, that I felt I had no choice but to turn away from it and retreat into the sanctuary of my fantasies. I was a dreamer because my dreams were more pleasant than the world surrounding me. I do not believe I am alone in this. No one becomes a dreamer unless their dreams are happier than their reality.”

‘A—poppy in a field of burdocks—thistles—he carries the love of antiquity in his entrails. He will never cease to be interested—Moonlight washes in—‘How to render in words those things for which there is no language, those impressions—mysteries of the soul unknown to the soul itself?’ He has no answer to any of these questions, but somehow feels important to ask them to honour their existence—Saint Anthony, Bruegel—’