Only when Mitchell had walked down the stone steps did he realise that the whole bay was covered with shoes, thousands and thousands of shoes. One of the policeman stood on the sands at the bottom of the steps, ordering the prisoners to collect as many as possible before the tide turned. No word about … Continue reading Shoes
Category: Novel
Rivulets
'One morning, Manawydan and Pryderi unleashed their dogs and mounted their horses. The dogs ran ahead barking and yelping and sniffing the air. They came to a thicket of tangled brambles and thorns. The dogs picked up a scent and their barks became one song. They ran in amongst the bushes like the many rivulets … Continue reading Rivulets
Attitude to Dogs
'We define ourselves, the Vegan thought, by our attitude to dogs. Feed the, breed them, eat them, starve them, set them to fight or set them to run, inject them with hormones or radical cancer drugs, send them out to desiccate in the cockpit of a spaceship: we are them.' All The Dogs.
Spa-town
'Utz had an idea, derived from Russian novels or his parents' love affair at Marienbad, that a spa-town was a place where the unexpected invariably happened.' Utz, Bruce Chatwin
The Story of the Dog
'This doesn't mean that the abstract form of my discourse, its rhythm and flow, is determined by the story of the dog.' from Empty Words by Mario Levrero
Absence Club 