As She Sat In The Bus She Received The Shafts Of The Sun As A Personal, Intimate Visit.

“As she sat in the bus she received the shafts of the sun as a personal, intimate visit.”

— Anaїs Nin, from ‘A Spy in the House of Love’, first published in 1954

“Just after seven the rain began to fall. Gently at first, a light pattering in the trees, and so thin I could not see it. Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slant ways from the slate sky, […]. I left the windows open wide. I stood in front of them and breathed the cold clean air. The rain splashed into my face and on my hands. I could not see beyond the lawns, the falling rain came thick and fast. I heard it sputtering in the gutter-pipes above the window, and splashing on the stones of the terrace. There was no more thunder. The rain smelt of moss and earth and of the black bark of trees.”

— Daphne du Maurier, from “Rebecca”, first published in 1938.

“[…], her eye was brooding but inevitable.”

— D.H. Lawrence, from ‘Women In Love’, first published in 1920.

“[…], it has teeth only for his own flesh and flesh only for his own teeth.”

— Franz Kafka, from a diary entry written in 1910, featured in ‘Diaries’. (translated Joseph Kresh)

“[…]. Pity to go anywhere on this good dark night. Pity to come out of it, really. Pity we can’t stop in the good darkness. It is better than anything ever would be—this good immediate darkness.”

— D.H. Lawrence, from ‘Women In Love’, first published in 1920.

“I greet the day at last/ Shortly after, I fall apart.”

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Se So Neon (새소년), from ‘Jayu’ (자유), released in 2021.

[Original:“이제야 나를 불러본 하루/ 이내 무너진다”]