2017
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Forlag Anchor Books
Format Paperback
Språk Engelsk
Sider 311
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Like god som de to forrige gangene, men forferdelig ubehagelig at den oppleves enda mer aktuell enn for 20 år siden!
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketA rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze
All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid
Still, it must be hell, to be a man, like that.
It must be just fine.
It must be hell.
It must be very silent.
You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound.This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter.
Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh.
It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavours, in the air or on the tounge, half-colours, too many.
I don´t want to be telling this story
You are a transitional generation, said Aunt Lydia. It is the hardest for you. We know the sacrifices you are being expected to make. It is hard when men revile you. For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts. She did not say:Because they will have no memories, of any other way. She said: Because they won't have things they can't havs.
So there it was, out in the open: his wife didn't understand him.
That's what I was there for, then. The same old thing. It was too banal to be true.
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