jackpumpkinhead 's review for:

Nadja by André Breton

4.0

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“Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us....But it doesn’t matter: you’ll take another name: and the name you choose, I ought to tell you, is extremely important. It must have something of fire about it, for it is always fire that recurs in anything to do with you. The hand, too, but that is less essential than the fire. What I see is a flame starting from the wrist, like this (with the gesture of palming a card), and making the hand burn up immediately, so that it disappears in the twinkling of an eye.”