Book: In Calabria
Quotes of Book: In Calabria
La Signora looked into his eyes, as she had done before, but this time Bianchi looked back and lost himself in a bright wilderness: a forest filled with glowing, shifting shadows, where nothing threatened, but nothing he knew applied, nothing he recognized held its shape for long. He felt himself altering, amending, as he wandered there--for how long?--until he had to make himself return while there was still a himself to command. And that is why men hunt unicorns, and why they will always kill them when they capture them. Not the beauty, not the magic of the horn . . . because of what lives and waits in the eyes. Finally I understand. book-quoteWhy are you hoping to kill the unicorns? Why would you not just take pictures, videos, with your cell phones, your fancy digital cameras, and let them be?"The young men looked at him, and then at each other, in plain astonishment They were not bad or vicious young men. They replied by turns, but they might as well have been speaking in unison. "What would be the point of that? Without the horn, the skull, all mounted on the wall, what would it mean? book-quote
