MerryKaate
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The best thing in the 10/6 New Yorker… Ann Patchett on grief. “You get what you get, I told myself. I had got so much. I had not got enough.”
Glowworms
In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me.
www.newyorker.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The best thing in the 10/6 New Yorker… Ann Patchett on grief. “You get what you get, I told myself. I had got so much. I had not got enough.”
Reposted by MerryKaate
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”