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Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”, Deaf Republic

Some sketches of my dear Hanuman

07.06.21 Morning in the South Park before the lab - some reading with a lovely view of Oxford. Starting The Fifth Season for a book club this Sunday - I'm very much in two minds about what I expect, there is such an unbelievable amount of hype around this series that I'm almost sure to be disappointed; but also I'm hesitant because I've tried reading The City We Became, thinking that I'd be sure to love it based on the reviews, but ended up DNFing it with a shrug. (I know a lot of people love it, but it just wasn't for me.) Well, I'll try to set all that aside and just see what I think of this one!

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“They were collectors of words the same way so many of the gravel diggers were collectors of fossils. They kept an ear constantly alert for them, the rare, the unusual, the unique.”

— Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

Should I be studying? Yes. Am I reading Iron Flame instead? Also yes.

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“My memory, my bloody place, my archaic angel bitten by the wind.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from “All day long…”; The Galloping Hour: French Poems (tr. by Patricio Ferrari & Forrest Gander)