Paul FilevDec 5, 2022

Returned home today from our trip to Tassie:

to a frown from our cat, Zoe, who put up with our absence, but was not amused that we went away (or at least that's what I'm telling myself);

and to a copy of DANGEROUS LAUGHTER, a short story collection by Steven Millhauser, waiting for me in the letterbox.

It's my first #Bookstodon #BookRecommendation follow up. I don't know anything about his work, but I liked the excerpt from one of the stories someone posted on here.

Love my #Cat & #BookMail

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"Not to speak, not to form words...not to smear the world with sentences...I knew that every element in the world—a cup, a tree, a day—was inexhaustible. Only the words that expressed it were vague or limited. Words harmed the world...The talking species! We're nothing but an aberration, an error of Nature. What must the stones think of us?"

(What, indeed? I would hope they remain indifferent & unaffected.)

—from "History of a Disturbance" by #StevenMillhauser

#JustRead #ShortStory #Books

Dec 7, 2022 at 5:21amWeb
Show threadeileen chengyin chowDec 7, 2022
@PaulFilev “What must the stones think of us?” Love that.
Show threadPaul FilevDec 7, 2022
@chowleen Me too. Blew me away. A question I won't be able to stop thinking about or unask.