Balint is the protagonist of a wonderful trilogy chronicling the declining decades of the Hungarian aristocracy in the years leading to the First World War. He is also one of its most thoughtful, endearing characters. Here he ponders a moment beneath a night sky and...
A lyrical description of a boy’s realisation that the world is a tiny pebble compared to the stars he is learning to observe. He swings from an awareness of our insignificence to the fact that he has something vast to commend him: knowledge and understanding....
A marvelous moonlit moment when David Esterly was skiing to keep the moon in a fix spot, creating a parallax effect. He felt he was arresting time for a moment and luxuriated in its apparent suspension or even reverse. ‘Hah! I could make time run backward. If I...
 Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and if you don’t, may you in any case enjoy bright stars and their weight of glory. The message of the day is an ancient one: peace on earth and goodwill to all men.’The stars shone so brightly that they made a weight...
Sleep is a theme I’ve chosen to include in nuannaarpoq.com as it’s such a wonderful source of rest and ease, and so many people don’t have enough either in quality or quantity. Sleeping as much as you need to be in full form is therefore a...
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