The Enchanted Clock
Julia Kristeva trans. by Armine Kotin Mortimer
“My son X-rays me, entrails and bones. He knows what pain constricts my throat if someone happens to raise their voice.”
“My son X-rays me, entrails and bones. He knows what pain constricts my throat if someone happens to raise their voice.”
“To be honest, I’ve always loathed Christmas.”
“I could hear the sea. That was perhaps an hour after I became paralyzed, although I couldn’t be sure as I soon lost track of time. ”
“Well worth it, well worth it, the last of the legendary glaciers and cell phone service besides. They have seen a wolf and bighorn sheep and a hundred cheeping pikas in the rocks and a pair of boxing marmots.”