Glass-and-Sand

Futile musings of an old ghost

Tag: library

  • Lockdown, or Mr Murakami’s Uncertain Walls 123

    Lockdown, or Mr Murakami’s Uncertain Walls 123

    The narrative reflects on personal memories during lockdown while reading “The City’s Uncertain Walls.” It intertwines themes of isolation, a lost love, and dreams through three small towns, ultimately highlighting despair, transformation, and the search for connection amidst societal chaos.

  • Youth

    Youth

    This seventeenth century writer interested him, and he was eagerly reading the selected excerpts of poems in the thin blue-covered “essential read” booklet, already covered with his notes, paragraphs, and sentences underlined, although his essay was not due for another week. He was sitting at his usual place, at the long library table of dark…