“It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.”
Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 27, “Avalon” (p. 244)
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“But now the route that used to wear out a solid day barely takes two hours.”
At nunc, quae solidum diem terebat,
horarum via facta vix duarum.
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Silvae, Book IV
" Fragmentary Blue http://www.ketzle.com/frost/fragblue.htm", st. 1 (1923)
1920s
“Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent.”
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (1973), Introduction
Context: Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), Chapter 14 (p. 207)
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)”
Source: Hunters of the Dusk
