Re: Philip Gross: Rites from A Day at the Earth House
Dec 24, 2006, 08:27
"He also captures what may be the very essence of the appeal of the past - our simultaneous connection to it, and complete separation from it - that necessarily sounds leaden or lame when expressed in prose."
Yay!
I reckon that puts its finger on exactly why there's a fascination about ancient sites. They're so near and yet so far.