Changes

There is more pain in this third of the book…but no less beauty. Philip Pullman describes Jansson's writing is "as smooth and odd and beautiful as sea-worn driftwood, as full of light and air as the Nordic summer." As I only have the work in translation…I hope it is true. I hope the originals are even more beautiful than these second hand versions…which themselves smell of the harsh bright light of the northern skies and let you taste the snows and fear the darkness.

Episodic. As beautiful, spiritual and hard to hold as light-play on the waves.