i.e. he went round about and round about before coming to the point.
The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
—Li Po
At the height of three miles, sitting above the clouds, I felt like an airborne seed…And I dreamed down at the clouds, and I thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides, as no other generation of man has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily.
—Saul Bellow, “Henderson: The Rain King”
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
