Birthday wishes, a quotation & images
Very happy birthday wishes go out to nihongofrancais! May your coming year bring you wonderful travels, and wonderful new experiences! ♥
Sometimes it's neat to open an old book and find lines that you've marked, and then wonder what mood, what emotion, what vision caused you to mark those lines out for future remembrance. I had such a moment this morning on the train when I found the following which I'm sure I marked out more than ten years ago:They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.
Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses, 1992
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