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Jola is 5% done with A Splintering
As the storyteller, I need you on my side. And we know that a story is only as good as its beginning.
Sep 14, 2025 09:48PM Add a comment
A Splintering

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Jola is 90% done with Vera
The books people read,—was there ever anything more revealing?
Sep 13, 2025 08:33AM Add a comment
Vera

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Jola is 60% done with Vera
She had never met anyone so comfortable to lean on mentally. Bodily, on the few occasions on which her aunt was out of the room, he was comfortable too; he reminded her of the very nicest of sofas,—expensive ones, all cushions. But mentally he was more than comfortable, he was positively luxurious. Such perfect rest, listening to his talk. No thinking needed. Things according to him were either so, or so.
Sep 13, 2025 05:49AM Add a comment
Vera

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Jola is 7% done with Ultramarine
She belongs to water the way others are proud of their distant origins. There was never any reason to break with or reject it. She chose navigation, this quintessentially human knowledge; she chose ancient artisanship and modern machines, numbers and sensations, cosmic abstractions and the sun on her face.
Aug 31, 2025 09:35AM Add a comment
Ultramarine

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Jola is 25% done with The Land in Winter
And though he was not much given to thinking about love, did not much care for the word, thought it had been worn to a kind of uselessness, gutted by the advertising men and the crooners, and even by politicians, some of whom seemed, recently, to have discovered it, it struck him that in the end it might just mean a willingness to imagine another’s life. To do that. To make the effort.
Aug 28, 2025 11:45AM Add a comment
The Land in Winter

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Jola is 41% done with Perspective(s)
Style is nothing without spirit, or rather style and spirit are one and the same.
Aug 24, 2025 04:36AM Add a comment
Perspective(s)

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Jola is starting Perspective(s)
When Savonarola ordered Botticelli to burn his paintings, it was not only beauty that he killed. By reducing idealism to his own blinkered fanaticism, he destroyed the very desire for the ideal.
Aug 23, 2025 09:57AM Add a comment
Perspective(s)

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Jola is 59% done with Alfabet/Alphabet
My poetic vocabulary, then, has something to do with allowing myself to feel the language, or performing Kafka’s imperative on myself; that the words are an axe to the frozen sea within me.
Aug 23, 2025 01:46AM Add a comment
Alfabet/Alphabet

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Jola is 99% done with A Month in the Country
We can ask and ask but we can’t have again what once seemed ours for ever – the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They’ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.
Aug 23, 2025 01:42AM Add a comment
A Month in the Country

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Jola is 28% done with Alfabet/Alphabet
Consonants are land; vowels are water.
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Consonants are the body; vowels are breath.
Aug 22, 2025 10:34AM Add a comment
Alfabet/Alphabet

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Jola is 15% done with Endling
Naturally blunt and low-voiced, the inexperienced Slavic woman trying to speak English is like a horse in a mouse maze.
Aug 22, 2025 10:29AM Add a comment
Endling

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Jola is 75% done with A Month in the Country
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s ends.
Aug 22, 2025 05:15AM 2 comments
A Month in the Country

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Jola is 92% done with Swallows
Maybe it was useless to try to explain every worry and doubt she had to Motoi. A man’s feelings and a woman’s were like two parallel lines that never crossed. And yet here they were, still husband and wife.
Aug 19, 2025 12:05PM Add a comment
Swallows

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Jola is 15% done with Dream State
“Photos make beautiful things uglier and more boring,” he said. “And ugly things less ugly and more interesting.”
Aug 18, 2025 12:09AM Add a comment
Dream State

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Jola is 41% done with Swallows
It occurred to Riki that a woman lived her whole life with this feeling that she was always too late.
Aug 17, 2025 10:25AM Add a comment
Swallows

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