Virgula Scenes of a Life at the Capital voor de schrijn met het

voor de schrijn met het hart ben ik gekomen toegerust met wat

simultaneously spectral and ancient

Crushed under the weight of collection and storage

In the 1980s

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love

Virgula Scenes of a Life at the Capital voor de schrijn met hetSasje Janssen (trans. Michele Hutchison) I long for a full stop, but my Virgulas are wary of employing them, I press them close as though death were breathing down my neck Virgula, the Latin word for a comma, is what moves thoughts and languages forward and what stops the stillness. In Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark. Virgula is invoked as a muse and a companion; she is called on in every