Friday, 14 December 2012

Maurice Herzog just died

AFP.com


He paid for the glory [of climbing the Annapurna] in the form of several fingers and toes that had to be amputated because of frostbite.
"You can see what I have less of, but I feel what I have more of and it is incomparably greater," he later observed.

Monday, 10 December 2012

Dwritving


"Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way."

E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)

Fragment #23

Shot down like a deer in the dark lying dead, the wound soon a door for dirt dwellers, bugs, birds and boars, to feed on my dull, rancid ca...