Nuruddin Farah Quote

You exist, you think, the way the heavenly bodies exist, for although one does not extend one's fingers and point at the heavens, one knows, yes that's the word, one knows that that is not the heavens. Unless... unless there are, in a sense, as many heavens as there are thinking beings; unless there are as many heavens as there are pointing fingers.

Maps (1987), ch. 1

You exist, you think, the way the heavenly bodies exist, for although one does not extend one's fingers and point at the heavens, one knows, yes...

You exist, you think, the way the heavenly bodies exist, for although one does not extend one's fingers and point at the heavens, one knows, yes...

You exist, you think, the way the heavenly bodies exist, for although one does not extend one's fingers and point at the heavens, one knows, yes...

You exist, you think, the way the heavenly bodies exist, for although one does not extend one's fingers and point at the heavens, one knows, yes...