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The Blind Assassin (2000)
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
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Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
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Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.
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Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
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A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?
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Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
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A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams.
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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November 18, 1939
(age 84)
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