Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

“What could be more absurd? Yet it is nature's folly, not ours. When she set abo…”

“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right…”

“I want to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, yellow cakes, drink thin, sharp wine. O…”

“And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.”