"Did she invent this fairy tale? She herself doesn’t know. She has heard so many told, by her mother and her two aunts and her grandmother, so many about thumblings and golden eggs and wolves and knights and witches and good as well as evil sisters, that she doesn’t have to think; once you have begun, it continues of its own accord, and the parts assemble themselves, sometimes one way and sometimes another, and you have a fairy tale." ~~ from 'Tyll' by Daniel Kehlmann, trans. Ross Benjamin
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"Sensei left his mark in places that didn’t appear in photographs or blueprints; in how surfaces felt to the touch, or the way a building was easy to use. Those were the things I’d wanted to see, feel, sketch, and record. With each survey I was coming closer to understanding his way of thinking, closer to finding the traces left by his hands." -- from 'The Summer House' by Masashi Matsuie, trans. Margaret Mitsutani
"And all of us, looking up, suddenly understood what lightness was. We understood what life could be like for someone who really did whatever he wanted, who believed in nothing and obeyed no one; we understood what it would be like to be such a person, and we understood that we would never be such people."
~~ from 'Tyll' by Daniel Kehlmann, trans. Ross Benjamin
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