“Mother Savage”
Guy de Maupassant
“I was madly in love with the area. It is one of those delightful corners of the world that possesses a sensual appeal for the eyes. This is almost a physical kind of love –
Those of us who are easily seduced by landscapes retain fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain streams, and certain hills which have become familiar to us and which can move our hearts like happy events –
Sometimes our day-dreams return to a wooded spot, or a riverbank, or an orchard bursting into blossom, seen only once on a lovely day but held in our hearts like images of women strolling the streets on a spring morning with fresh, clean faces, stirring body and soul with unrequited desire, with the unforgettable sensation of fleeting joy.”
*pictures taken by me at Etretat in Normandy, France, 2010
More books & travel:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
“Poem,” from Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
