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The Asteroid Is Us |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Timothy Rake |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,407 Words, 14,929 Characters |
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SPOKEN HERE
Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003
322 pp., $25.00
No sooner had I finished the last sentence of Spoken Here than I found myself reaching to the shelf for the journal where--like Noah forestalling the flood--I have collected for over thirty years bits and pieces of language, in the event that someday I just might need something to understand the world, if not to save civilization from itself. Worn and tattered, the old black-linen cover and its threadbare contents are nonetheless full of life--a breathing space full of writers and writings like folded vellum page ends that mark the passage of a literary journey. I found myself searching for a certain lifeline to W.H. Auden. Providentially, his tribute to the poet W.B. Yeats was t...
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...n the Place de l'Horloge, in Avignon, the heartland of that ancient tongue of the troubadours. "There is a realization," said my friend, "the more Europe becomes a political reality, the more people are retreating to find their identity within the local context. I see the glass as half full, not half empty." From the soul, I hope, that is the last word from the raw towns we believe and die in.
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