‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Derek Mahon, Selected Prose
'The idea of failure, much underrated, thrives between freedom and necessity, between gravity and grace, in an 'endless quarrel between earth and sky'.' (104)
