‘How big?’ ‘That big’
Andrew Motion: Tales from the Riverbank, 5 February 1998
Notes on Fishing
by Sergei TimmofeevichAksakov, translated by Thomas Hodge.
Northwestern, 230 pp., $30, September 1997,9780810113664 Show More
by Sergei TimmofeevichAksakov, translated by Thomas Hodge.
Northwestern, 230 pp., $30, September 1997,
“... in a jar. No, not moonbeams when I thought about it. More like bits of the moon itself, but dark. Aksakov doesn’t mention sticklebacks or miller’s thumb in his Notes on Fishing. But he does have a page and a half about minnows: ‘Sometimes in the small whirlpool of a clear brook you suddenly notice that the uniformly light-coloured bottom is covered with ... ”