n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
a melancolia pode às vezes ser isto,
um modo de sobreviver ao vazio, o comovido
jeito de pôr a mão sobre o mármore da mesa
e pedir outro martini fresco
se faz favor.
