Quote of the Week:
mais 115 palavrasThe guide is a layman, he has a dusty grey complexion and talks down to us from his privilege of sharing in the sanctity of the site, a scholar, for the stream of dates and names gushes forth at great speed.
Etiquetas » Cees Nooteboom
Guided Tour
The cave church of Covadonga in Asturias
View of the Basilica from the cave church of Covadonga, Asturias
Covadonga (All That Has Moved Is History)
The cave church of Covadonga in Asturias
View of the Basilica from the cave church of Covadonga, Asturias
Quote of the Week:
mais 98 palavrasIt is not time that stood still here, although one would like to think so, it is the mountains.
Rituals by Cees Nooteboom || Review
Title: Rituals (Rituelen)
Author(s): Cees Nooteboom
No. of pages: 207
Genre: Literature
Publication date: 1980
Date read: June 23rd 2018 mais 424 palavras
The Dutch & the Spanish (Los holandeses y los españoles)
Quote of the Week / La cita de la semana:
mais 197 palavrasThere exist certain similarities between the Spanish and the Dutch character.
The landscape of La Mancha dotted with windmills is no more rigorously divided into heaven and earth than the Dutch polder.
April Reading: Mukherjee, Spark, Nooteboom, Wieringa, Rulfo, Alyokhina, Jarman
Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom took me two goes to get into. This a novel of parts: there are five numbered sections, told from the points of view of five different characters, who cross each other at most tangentially. mais 1.509 palavras
The Paradox of Travel
Quote of the Week:
mais 107 palavrasPerhaps that is the travellers deepest melancholy, that the joy of return is always mixed with a felling that is harder to define, the feeling that the places you have ached for since you first saw them simply went on existing without you, that if you really wanted to hold them close you would have to stay with them for ever.
A Glass of Plutonic Champagne
Quote of the Week:
mais 8 palavrasOh to see the Earth just once as a full moon, from a pavement café on the empty shores of the Sea of Tranquillity, a glass of plutonic champagne in front of me on my platinum table, dreaming of an impossible trip to Spain!
