Noel’s Reviews > The Captive / The Fugitive > Status Update

Since starting this book I have moved countries, I’ve gone through university, I’ve been heartbroken, I’ve broken hearts…

“But in that case is it not true that those elements—all the residuum of reality which we are obliged to keep to ourselves, which cannot be transmitted in talk, even from friend to friend, from master to disciple, from lover to mistress, that ineffable something which differentiates qualitatively what each of us has felt and what he is obliged to leave behind at the threshold of the phrases…”

[Cont’d]

To write a passage so beautiful and then return to the same mind-numbing topics…

“At last he came to the Vermeer which he remembered as more striking, more different from anything else he knew, but in which, thanks to the critic’s article, he noticed for the first time some small figures in blue, that the sand was pink, and, finally, the precious substance of the tiny patch of yellow wall.”

[Cont’d]