now-here
'Here he sits between his ears and all he hears is emptiness. An amusing conception, indeed. On the sea there were both motion and sound, something for the ear to feed upon, a chorus of waters. Here nothingness meets nothingness and the result is zero, not even a hole. Enough to make one shake one's head, utterly at a loss.' ~Knut Hamsun, The Road Leads On (Coward-McCann, 1934), p. 508. Trans. Eugene Gay-Tifft.
'Here he sits between his ears and all he hears is emptiness. An amusing conception, indeed. On the sea there were both motion and sound, something for the ear to feed upon, a chorus of waters. Here nothingness meets nothingness and the result is zero, not even a hole. Enough to make one shake one's head, utterly at a loss.' ~Knut Hamsun, The Road Leads On (Coward-McCann, 1934), p. 508. Trans. Eugene Gay-Tifft.
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