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"This is an uncommonly beautiful novel. Its final sentence 'I want to show you something rather extraordinary' might have been its first. Nearly every page gave me something new to marvel at an image, a gesture, a sudden insight into a character. Like the glacier that haunts its people (and the reader), this novel rears up a shining ice-cathedral of a story, lovely, mysterious, and awe-inspiring. By the end, I felt that one small, remarkable piece of Canada had been examined with such penetrating eyes that it had begun to glow with hints of universal truth." Jack Hodgins… (meer)
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As if everything in the world is the history of ice. ------Michael Ondaatje (Coming Through Slaughter)
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At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse.
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I'll be a ghost to her. A lesser shade, haunting some room in her memory she hardly ever enters.
Glaciologist. I'd never heard the word before. . . . I thought he was the one man on earth who bothered that much with the, that this science was his alone, that he had invented it. Arcturology. The science of being distant, and receding a little every year.
The terminus of the glacier is an instructive place. Ceaselessly changing, and yet always the same, like the seashore. Ice streams becoming rivers, mountains wearing down into valleys. The transition zone between two worlds.
But ice floats, he thought at the time. Where did it go?
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
I want to show you something rather extraordinary.
"This is an uncommonly beautiful novel. Its final sentence 'I want to show you something rather extraordinary' might have been its first. Nearly every page gave me something new to marvel at an image, a gesture, a sudden insight into a character. Like the glacier that haunts its people (and the reader), this novel rears up a shining ice-cathedral of a story, lovely, mysterious, and awe-inspiring. By the end, I felt that one small, remarkable piece of Canada had been examined with such penetrating eyes that it had begun to glow with hints of universal truth." Jack Hodgins
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