“In the case of a writer like Musil writing is often a graceful act, like a silvery fish leaping.”
Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times
p 37
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.”
— Anthony Burgess, book A Clockwork Orange
Source: A Clockwork Orange
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