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Forlag Vintage Classics
Utgivelsesår 2010
Format Paperback
ISBN13 9780099541288
Språk Engelsk
Sider 160
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Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man – all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us – we have died – what is there to be afraid of?
To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.
George has been trying to train himself, lately, to recognise his students’ cars. (He is continually starting these self-improvement projects; sometimes it’s memory-training, sometimes a new diet, sometimes just a vow to read some unreadable Hundredth Best Book. He seldom perseveres in any of them for long.)