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)

Every cycle worse

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