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what is this man saying

People were forever born; people forever died, and never were again. Fathers died and sons were born; the prairie was forever, with its wind whispering through the long, dead grasses, through the long and endless silence.

rip frater rattus 💔 gone but never forgotten

and so i begin again. why did i stop reading 50 pages from the end 2 years ago…. i may never know

Ballet of Lepers - 4/5

a terribly interesting character and story rife with desire, shame, and the destruction which follows. i hesitate to call cohen’s prose beautiful, but it is certainly evocative and unrepentant in its candour.

“We are not mad, we are human and we want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark and we are ardent and cruel”

“He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever. He’s great at this stuff.” (: