Penelope Lively - The Photograph (1953)

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His prime resource is the leaky vessel of is own memory. At times he views it thus, quite literally — as some old pail with holes and rusted seams. Alternatively, he imagines an extensive manuscript of which there survive only a handful of charred fragments; it is like trying to piece together the Gospels from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.

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A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery.

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