Too loud a solitude
by Bohumil Hrabal · first published 1990
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…the veins to the root of each blood vessel." An example of those beautiful sentences: https://gist.github.com/simonsarris/11014861 (made a gist so I stop polluting comment-space so much) That's from Too Loud a Solitude by Hrabal, a short book, probably the most beautiful pamphlet I have ever read.
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