“Have you ever noticed flocks of swallows flying past between the lines of certain books, whole verses of trembling, pointed swallows? One must interpret the flights of those birds…”

—  Bruno Schulz

“Spring” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/sanatorium/spring01.htm <br class="br">His father, Books

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Polish novelist and painter 1892–1942

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