Denis Thériault

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

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  • pranahas quoted5 years ago
    More alluring by far were letters from others.
  • pranahas quoted5 years ago
    He used to send letters to himself, but the experience had been a disappointment. He’d gradually stopped, and didn’t really miss it; he didn’t miss himself.
  • Vitahas quoted9 years ago
    There was anything and everything, coming from here, there, and everywhere: letters from close relatives and faraway correspondents, letters from beer tasters comparing notes, from globetrotters writing to their mothers, from retired steam locomotive firemen listing their bumps and bruises. There were those overly reassuring letters servicemen dispatched from Afghanistan to their anxious wives, and those worried words uncles wrote to their nieces concerning secrets that shouldn’t be revealed for anything in the world, and those Dear John or Dear Mary letters in which circus acrobats in Las Vegas broke up with their former lovers, and there were even hate letters crammed with insults spilling out onto the envelope.
    But above all there were love letters. Because even after Valentine’s Day, love remained the most common denominator, the subject linking the greatest number of pens. Love in every grammatical form and every possible tone, dished up in every imaginable shape: passionate letters or courteous ones, sometimes suggestive and sometimes chaste, either calm or dramatic, occasionally violent, often lyrical, and especially moving when the feelings were expressed in simple terms, and never quite so touching as when the emotions hid between the lines, burning away almost invisibly behind a screen of innocuous words.
    Once he’d read and reread the letter of the day, had savoured it down to the very marrow, Bilodo made a photocopy of it for his records.
  • pranahas quoted5 years ago
    and never quite so touching as when the emotions hid between the lines, burning away almost invisibly behind a screen of innocuous words.
  • Poul Otto Thimhas quoted5 years ago
    masters of the genre, but the delicate balance
  • pranahas quoted5 years ago
    For him, delivering post was a mission he accomplished conscientiously, knowing he contributed in this way to the maintenance of order in the universe. He wouldn’t have wanted to swap places with anyone in the world. Except perhaps with another postman.
  • pranahas quoted5 years ago
    Bilodo couldn’t think of anything more exciting than taking off, decamping, drinking in the fresh air and savouring the fragrance of a new day while walking about in the morning hours without anyone telling him what to do.
  • Guilherme Santana Gomeshas quoted5 years ago
    She was calling him, and he answered, also with a song, because that was how you communicated when you were a whale – you sang into the void, unafraid of the darkness that grew ever darker, ever deeper.
  • Guilherme Santana Gomeshas quoted5 years ago
    You can’t have your head in the clouds forever. As gravity eventually caught up with Bilodo, he came back down to earth,
  • Guilherme Santana Gomeshas quoted5 years ago
    Still the cursed loop. The serpent bit its tail. Time cannibalized itself.
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