Status Updates From The Country Life

Had a bit of a slump last week but hopefully we baaack~

“I, however, believe that she always looked like that; almost beautiful, that is, or post-beautiful, like the sky at the end of a lovely day, when the sun has disappeared but its aura remains, redolent of things past, a memory more piquant even than the thing remembered.”

“There was, of course, a feeling of great liberty aroused by the act of severing oneself from the past; but having stripped myself of so much, I had a panicked sense of my own nakedness and the indignities to which it exposed me.”

Okay, so I think if the rest of the novel continues in this way, I’m not going to have any choice but to read every single one of Cusks’s books thereafter :)))

“Feeling it again, I could admit that its absence since had worried me. I had been relying on the memory of it and my memory had become a tattered paper, like the letter which sustains love between people far away from each other.”

Courtesy of louloupi!

so good but so stressful

à rachel cusk novel with a plot??? this is wild

wtf is happening