“Most of them accepted namelessness with the perfect indifference with which they had so long accepted and ignored their names. Whales and dolphins, seals and sea otters consented with particular alacrity, sliding into anonymity as into their element.”
Want a goodnight, my favorite season is the fall of patriarchy, animal lover, thought-provoking story?
I read this for the first time about 10 years ago in my Bible as Literature college class at Mills College. My affection for it hasn’t faded and the conclusion still gives me chills:
(or for audiophiles, here’s a Read by the Author version)
—kit bertum
Flommist Kit Bertum is talkative and moody, fills silences with internal laughter. Copyright © 2019 Kit Bertum. Pictured: Paul Klee, Adam and Little Eve (cropped), 1921, source.
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