Brilliant Prose

Out of the depths of time/ Rainer Maria Rilke

Out of the depths of time/ Rainer Maria Rilke

Why do you not think of him as the coming one, imminent from all eternity, the future one, the final fruit of a tree whose leaves we are? What keeps you from projecting his birth into times that are in process of becoming, and living your life like a painful and beautiful day in the […]

Shoot me, Harry. For Christ sake shoot me/ Ernest Hemingway

Shoot me, Harry. For Christ sake shoot me/ Ernest Hemingway

He remembered long ago when Williamson, the bombing officer, had been hit by a stick bomb some one in a German patrol had thrown as he was coming in through the wire that night and, screaming, had begged every one to kill him. He was a fat man, very brave, and a good officer, although […]