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“If he is awake early enough the boy sees the men walk past the farmhouse down First Lake Road.” –Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of the Lion

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I finished reading Michael Hulse’s new translation of Rilke’s anguished novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge this past Valentine’s Day. (This is the fourth translation  I’ve read of the novel.) Written in seventy-one luminous fragments, the novel coheres into a brilliantly lacquered mosaic. As expected from this meditant of meaning, of memory, the novel [...]

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