"Autumn is the season most suited to the work of
men today. At this time of year city dwellers discover that streets and squares
are clean and luminous, the air is light and cool, and people walk with a
spring in their step. Since this has to do with temperament, I think I am a man
of the sea and working at sea is what I find most congenial, agreeable and easy
to grasp. I cannot disassociate the sea from autumn." —
Catalan
journalist and author Josep Pla (1897-1981), diary entry for
Nov. 9, 1918, in The Gray Notebook, translated by Peter Bush
(2013)
I took the image accompanying this post when I was on
vacation in the autumn of 2014 in Beaufort, SC, by the Atlantic Ocean.
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