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« This evil is Elpis, Hope. This is the worst of all evils. It is hope that forbids us to act, it is hope that prolongs the misfortune of men, since, not, against all evidence, "everything will be fixed". Can't be what shouldn't be... »
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The anomaly |
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The anomaly
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« He has retained only eleven characters, and guesses that alas, eleven is already far too much. His editor begged him, Victor, pity, it's too complicated, you'll lose your readers, simplify, prune, go to the essentials. But Victor is only doing it at his head. He attacked the novel with a Mickey Spillane-style pastiche about this character of which no one knows much. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly
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« It is difficult to describe what is happening, no word exists quite in the language to define this slow vibration of the world, this infinitesimal pulse that, everywhere on Earth, and in the same moment, affects both the cat that slept by the chimney in this Arkansas cottage as well as the ash goose that crosses the sky above Bordeaux , and the Zambezi Falls and the pristine snow of Anapurna, the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal of Venice as the congested artery of the great slum of Dharavi and the dirty sponge laid at the edge of a sink in Montjoux and the old flat tire in the yard of a garage in Mumbai »
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The anomaly |
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The anomaly
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