The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Friday, March 5, 2010

From the Desk of Daniel Varsky

"There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you’d forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularly life with other people, possible.” --Nicole Krauss' "From the Desk of Daniel Varsky"

I wonder why she never opened the locked drawer. Carefully. I would be too curious to find out what was contained in it. A secret--ripped first drafts, photographs with creases, scribbled love letters. And when I open it, I would not find the things I'd liked to find. When I open it, there would be my favorite pen I had lost, or just heaps of candy wrappers. Or perhaps, there would not be anything but blank space, neither Daniel Varsky's nor mine--but dust, maybe.
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