She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
Michael OndaatjeThe joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion
Michael OndaatjeThe event that will light the way for immigration in North America is the talking picture. The silent film brings nothing but entertainment—a pie in the face, a fop being dragged by a bear out of a department store—all events governed by fate and timing, not language and argument. The tramp never changes the opinion of the policeman. The truncheon swings, the tramp scuttles through a corner window and disturbs the fat lady’s ablutions. These comedies are nightmares. The audience emits horrified laughter as Chaplin, blindfolded, rollerskates near the edge of the unbalconied mezzanine. No one shouts to warn him. He cannot talk or listen. North America is still without language, gestures and work and bloodlines are the only currency.
Michael OndaatjeFathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.
Michael OndaatjeWhen we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives will mean to the future. We become vain with the names we own, our claims to have been the first eyes, the strongest army, the cleverest merchant. It is when he is old that Narcissus wants a graven image of himself.
Michael OndaatjeMen had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
Michael Ondaatjeإن الأغنياء هم فقط الذين لا يستطيعون أن يصبحوا أذكياء,لقد توصلوا إلى تفاهم سجنوا طوال أعوام في الامتياز,عليهم أن يحموا ممتلكاتهم
Michael Ondaatjeمن يضع فتات الطعام الذي يغويك؟يشدك نحو شخص لم تفكر به أبداً..حلم ثم فيما بعد,سلسلة أخرى من الأحلام
Michael Ondaatjeالمتحدثون يغوون,الكلمات ترشدنا إلى الزوايا.نريد أكثر من أي شئ آخر أن ننمو ونتغير,عالم جرئ وطريف
Michael OndaatjeCommissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer.
Michael OndaatjeMots clés lion lewis skin bridge michael-ondaatje nun harris patrick rowland
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