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miyako73
12-16-2012, 12:16 AM
This is the only book I finished reading in three hours, the only book in which I could not wait to move on to the next page, the only book I wished I were the writer. I want to write the way Bauby wrote--intelligent, witty, stylish, elegant, simple, clear, funny, and engaging.

"Through the frayed curtain at my window, a wan glow announces the break of day."

"If I drool, I may as well drool on cashmere."

"Like the sailor who watches the home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede."

Lines like these, simple but elegant, make me feel glad there is such thing as literature.

But here are my questions:

Who wrote the book I just read? Was it Bauby or his translator? Is the original French better than its English translation?

Eiseabhal
12-27-2012, 06:58 PM
I 'm glad I wasn't the writer. Being paralysed by a stroke is a high price to pay for some beautiful imagery. He wrote it by blinking.