…if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a Young Poet
It may be the melancholy of the evening in which I am writing, but the truth is I’m talking about an inextricable knot of good and evil, of light and shade inherent in reading and literature. All this is hard, why fool ourselves? It’s a difficulty that, according to Gombrowicz, good literature has as the product of an instinct to sharpen spiritual life. There are times when I would recommend reading to my worst enemies.
— Enrique Vila-Matas
Montano’s Malady
Jessica Williams
Léon Gimpel
…but in the actual world he would camouflage himself and conceal himself quietly beyond the horizon.
— Kobo Abe
The Ruined Map
Max von Oppenheim
Cliff House
Sidon castle, Lebanon
Lynn Davis
Bent Pyramid, Dashur, Cairo
Fred Herzog
(photo fragment)
At many locations, the true horizon is obscured by trees, buildings, mountains, etc., and the resulting intersection of earth and sky is called the visible horizon. When looking at a sea from a shore, the part of the sea closest to the horizon is called the offing.
Horizon
Evans Frederick Henry
Ingoldmalls
Bae Bien-U
