Three Books This Winter

Three books, all of them re-reads:

1. The Gleam of Light — John Berger
2. Notes from a Stranger's Apartment — anonymous, 1978
3. Slow Photography — the unpublished version

The first two have been with me long enough to feel like rooms. The third is mine, but it has changed enough that I think of it as a stranger's now.

What re-reading mostly teaches me is which sentences I have already underlined. Some of them I do not believe anymore; I leave the underline anyway, as a way of marking the difference between this winter and the last one.