"only from the outside, from the street, do i hear something like the roiling of water in which there are a great many fish packed in so tightly they keep bumping together and the water is bubbling and seething with fish and brown from the mud stirred up by them, the water keeps rearing up in countless silvery bodies as if the water itself were a body nipping at itself and breathing with a thousand wide-open mouths, and in this way, i assume, it is making this sound i have never before heard, that today is striking our house from the outside."

~   jenny erpenbeck, the book of words
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17th Aug 2010✧22:09
Opaque  by  andbamnan