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Friday, 16 January 2015

Almost but Not Quite


        Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
1952

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Frank McCarthy

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