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The Line of the Mountain |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 563 Words, 3,386 Characters |
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It rains gently and unceasingly. It rains listlessly but with infinite patience, as it has always rained upon this earth which is the same color as the sky--somewhere between soft green and soft ashen grey, and the line of the mountain has been blotted out for a long time now. vbcrlf "For hours?" vbcrlf "No, for years. The li...
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...nightingale intones its solitary lament by night. But there are hardly any lepers left nowadays; it is not like the old times when the place was swarming with them, hooting like barn owls to give warning that the monks from the mission were out after them to give them absolution.Note: From Mazurka for Two Dead Men by Camilo Jos‚ Cela (Quartet Books, 1993). Translation by Patricia Haugaard. vbcrlf
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