from Antonio Tabucchi's "The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro"
lines from a poem by Louise Colet ("coded message" to Flaubert):que faites-vous des anciennes amours? les chassez-vous comme des ombres vaines?
Ils ont été, ces fantômes glacés, coeur contre coeur, une part de vous même.
(don't know where the actual line breaks are.)
translation:
"what in fact do you do with your past loves? Would you send them away like useless shadows? These gelid ghosts were, heart pressed to heart, a part of yourself."
just thought it weird for something like this to pop out of a murder mystery novel...
posted by 儒 @ 04:59
1 Comments:
well, you know, there's no better mystery than one filled with love, desire, loss ... I mean, otherwise we're back to the Secret Seven or the Famous Five :> (which is not bad also)
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