"It is otherwise with us"
Stepanova, Levi, Stern, Anonymous, Lispector
Maria Stepanova (tr. from Russian by Sasha Dugdale):
Primo Levi (tr. from Italian by Raymond Rosenthal):
Preferably the worst survived, the selfish, the violent, the insensitive, the collaborators of the “gray zone,” the spies.
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Gerald Stern:
Anonymous, pre-10th century:
Clarice Lispector (tr. from Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz):
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Your choices in source material and combinations are revelatory - I am so glad that I learned of The Sharpener or I'd be missing all of this, every day. I have reasons to go back to my Gerald Stern and Anglo Saxon books, not let the dust win.