Emilie’s Reviews > Gliff > Status Update

I shouldn’t be telling you this but you two are coming up on facial as possible UVs. And when she said did that mean Ultraviolets, he looked at her like she was a person walking a tightrope without a net.

Even though they're breathing and moving they're like the things in one of those old paintings of globes and skulls and fruits and lutes, I said.

the huge lit candles in the glass jars burning pointless against the daylight.

Christ, he said.

He said it like a question.

Which house is burning?

The country where you live, or Europe, or the whole world? Perhaps the houses, the cities have already burned down - who knows how long ago? - in a single immense blaze that we pretended not to see. Some are reduced to just bits of frame, a frescoed wall, a roof beam, names, so many names, already eaten by the flames.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveller.
- Franz Kafka