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Semantics · 03-15-2013, 04:23 PM

I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even
their contents, even me, woken
by the cold and thrill, and still
they said, like the Dutch verb for falling
silent that English has no accommodation for
in the attics and rafters of its intimacies.

Zwijgen by Saskia Hamilton (1967)

03-15-2013, 04:23 PM	#11386
Semantics Senior Member How Do You Identify?: malapropist Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New England Posts: 2,169 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,367 Thanked 3,963 Times in 1,201 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I slept before a wall of books and they calmed everything in the room, even their contents, even me, woken by the cold and thrill, and still they said, like the Dutch verb for falling silent that English has no accommodation for in the attics and rafters of its intimacies. Zwijgen by Saskia Hamilton (1967)