David MITCHELL

Cloud Atlas

Klára Kováčiková 

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself and moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

She holds forth like a man and smokes myrrhy cigarettes through a rhino horn holder.

When one unlocks a woman´s body, her box of confidences also spills.

One writes music because winter is eternal and because if one didn´t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one´s throat all the sooner.

Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

Snow´s whites are bruised lilacs in half light.

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