Posts tagged beauty
Posts tagged beauty
“Now, now, now, he prayed when the music darkened and fell, and spun and caught itself, and rose again, until at last - Orpheus to his own soul - he climbed beyond Hades’ grasp, beyond himself, beyond the terrifying suffocating horror that awaited him, until exhaustion and peace had claimed him, as the music floated - softly, lightly - downward, and he let it end on the quiet chords before the final arpeggio.”
Mary Doria Russell, from Doc.
Over on twitter, my friend Joe is collecting sentences “so good you thought [they] would crack you open.” This was too long for twitter, but it’s one of mine.
