Under the gaze of Ulysses –

Species, words and other landscapes

a TRAVEL NOTEBOOK by Manuel Valente Alves

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Dilemmas

“Linnaeus is a poet when he urges us to count the bones of a fish and the scales of a snake, and to observe and distinguish between the flying-feathers and the steering-feathers of a bird. The murmur of summer and of the river would require of the person committed to purring it in words, while lost in its enchantment, all the particular punctuation of the Swedish classifier, the commas which mark his phrases, the semi-colons which subdivide his sentences, and the full stops which conclude his distinctions.” –– Claudio Magris, Danube (1986)

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