Babel
Michael Romano, Milton Läufer & all the contributors to BAR
(Each of the following sentences comes from the texts of the Review.
Hover over one to see its title or click to read the whole text.)
” After this an entirely new crackling could be heard on Juno, one that sounded like an earthly laughing.
He is gentle and multicolored, and on the third day after he feeds, he rises from sleep and gives a great cry, and from his mouth comes a sweet perfume. Several years passed, almost forty since Ulysses appeared, until, in 1960, Julio Cortázar took Paul Valéry’s remark and crushed it with joyous abandon. An asymmetric bundle of lotus flowers floating in the swirling current, the words “cherry tree” and their characters arranging themselves seamlessly in the vertical phrase. Were they aware of the esthetic impact of their acts? Was their aim ever to launch an artistic movement or carry out a kind of long-term performance? So many questions that we will never be able to answer.
He is gentle and multicolored, and on the third day after he feeds, he rises from sleep and gives a great cry, and from his mouth comes a sweet perfume. Several years passed, almost forty since Ulysses appeared, until, in 1960, Julio Cortázar took Paul Valéry’s remark and crushed it with joyous abandon. An asymmetric bundle of lotus flowers floating in the swirling current, the words “cherry tree” and their characters arranging themselves seamlessly in the vertical phrase. Were they aware of the esthetic impact of their acts? Was their aim ever to launch an artistic movement or carry out a kind of long-term performance? So many questions that we will never be able to answer.
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