Citerat från veckans läsning

"Addressed to the frog which swallows the moon in an eclips".
Förklarande not till ett utdrag ur A. C. Grahams översättning av The eclipse of the moon av Lu T'ung. En lång dikt från 800-talet.

"Ibland föreställde jag mig frälsningen som en ejakulation av miljarder leviterande fjärilar i en guldglänsande sädesvätska."
Mircea Cartarescu Orbitór Kroppen
(övers. Inger Johansson)

"given the speed of growth, it becomes necessary to photograph the child often, because nothing is ore fleeting or unmemorable than a six-month-old infant, soon deleted and replaced by one of eight months, and then of a year; and all the perfection that, to the eyes of the parents, a child of three may have reached cannot prevent its being destroyed by that of the four-year-old"
Italo Calvino "The adventure of a photographer"

Beyond the towel, the lady had undone her halter, paying no attention to whether he was looking at her or not. Amadeo didn't know whether to look at her, pretending to read, or to read, pretending to look at her".
Italo Calvino "The adventure of a reader"
(detta citat och det ovan översatt av William Weaver)