David Stephen Mitchell

The book reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.

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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