"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labelling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
~ Patrick White, born today, 1912.
"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labelling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
~ Patrick White, born today, 1912.
Merci. C'est le premier mot qui me vient à l'esprit en refermant ce livre gigantesque à tous points de vue. Nous avons passé une dizaine de jours ensemble, sa densité appelle de la concentration, le plaisir en est décuplé. Ce roman a soixante-dix ans...
Had to share this passage: "wearing all her rings, as ladies do at a shipwreck or a fire"..
#patrickwhite voss
Finished the book that contained our cat's death as well. It ended with another 5 deaths. Expected since it covered a life..
Made me think about the deaths I attended: great grandma of my cousins, grandpa from my father side, my mother, my uncle in Germany, pets..
And the deaths I did not attend because I was not in the country.. 3 grandparents and an uncle. I regret not being there; like those people's life stories din not have a proper ending.
More of that: book and cat. Finished today. #thesolidmandala #patrickwhite
I enjoyed it more this time. Then I had a discussion with my husband about who died and of what. What exactly happened..
#patrickwhite, the solid mandala. Reading last night while waiting for one or another of the kids to go to bed.
Went on a trip with the scouts last weekend and grabbed a book from the bookshelves. I wanted the tree of man, but accidentally got this. And now I'm gonna finish it. 2/3 done.
#20books № 9:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1973/white/biographical/
"[Patrick White] was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the only Australian to have been awarded the literary prize." -- Wikipedia
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