Daily Dose

From For Two Thousand Years, by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Philip O Ceallaigh

HEAR

"You could hear brief rumblings from afar, which then echoed down the whole valley, as if every sound were broken into thousands of tiny splinters."

From Part Three, Chapter One

Clerihew of the Cheerful Romanian

EMIL CIORAN

Emil Cioran,
Once he'd begun,
Settled into his easy chair
And drifted off On The Heights of Despair.