![]() ![]() The grave was a thousand feet higher up than my house, the air was different here, as clear as a glass of water light sweet winds lifted your hair when you took off your hat over the peaks of the hills, the clouds came wandering from the East, drew their live shadow over the wide undulating land, and were dissolved and disappeared over the Rift Valley. In a bee-line, it was not more than five miles from my house, but round by the road it was fifteen. The last four paragraphs, and especially the last two, are ineffably beautiful. And remember, English wasn’t her first language. This is some of the most evocative prose I know (I’ve highlighted it before, I know, but you can’t read stuff like this too often). Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) describes the grave of her lover, Denys Finch Hatton, who was killed in a plane crash at age 44. ![]()
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