Glimmer/ Links!

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stories and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.

     - Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

This is a companion quote to the Yeats quote of last week. It is the epigraph to Robert Musil's Young Torless, an important although not a very agreeable book.

Related (and highly recommended for luminous beauty) links are:

At the beginning, very appropriately on the aleph blog, a post with a lovely aphorism  about the moment before plunging into the depths.

Afterward, looking back, a post on a room of one's own blog.

I love triangulations in the ether.