solsticial

There are moments when only the strangely complex simplicity of Joseph Roth will do and as I scoured the shelves I settled on Job The Story of a Simple Man (translated with huge sensitivity by Dorothy Thompson) for my post-equinoxial and pre-solsticial read.

Joseph Roth day 2007

There are moments when only the strangely complex simplicity of Joseph Roth will do and as I scoured the shelves I settled on Job The Story of a Simple Man (translated with huge sensitivity by Dorothy Thompson) for my post-equinoxial and pre-solsticial read.

Joseph Roth day 2007

There are moments when only the strangely complex simplicity of Joseph Roth will do and as I scoured the shelves I settled on Job The Story of a Simple Man (translated with huge sensitivity by Dorothy Thompson) for my post-equinoxial and pre-solsticial read.

48 entries from October 2007 2007

These contests were aggravated by the season: they took place during summer, when the southern Asiatic wind came laden with intolerable heat, when the streams were dried up in their shallow beds, and the vast basin of the sea appeared to glow under the unmitigated rays of the solsticial sun.

The Last Man 2003

A south-west wind brought up rain — the sun came out, and mocking the usual laws of nature, seemed even at this early season to burn with solsticial force.

The Last Man 2003

A south-west wind brought up rain -- the sun came out, and mocking the usual laws of nature, seemed even at this early season to burn with solsticial force.

II.8 1826

These contests were aggravated by the season: they took place during summer, when the southern Asiatic wind came laden with intolerable heat, when the streams were dried up in their shallow beds, and the vast basin of the sea appeared to glow under the unmitigated rays of the solsticial sun.

II.2 1826

These contests were aggravated by the season: they took place during summer, when the southern Asiatic wind came laden with intolerable heat, when the streams were dried up in their shallow beds, and the vast basin of the sea appeared to glow under the unmitigated rays of the solsticial sun.

The Last Man 1826

A south-west wind brought up rain -- the sun came out, and mocking the usual laws of nature, seemed even at this early season to burn with solsticial force.

The Last Man 1826

These contests were aggravated by the season: they took place during summer, when the southern Asiatic wind came laden with intolerable heat, when the streams were dried up in their shallow beds, and the vast basin of the sea appeared to glow under the unmitigated rays of the solsticial sun.

The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824