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"

Monday, May 30, 2011

a wish and a fear

I want an eidetic memory of you lest I never see you again.

Years later I would see your brother. No, not in a coffeeshop but in his room, watching his favorite cartoon on his bed, in his blue PJs, all of a sudden sitting up, happy to see me. He's eight. You're there beside me in the warmly-lit room, your hands on me, look who's here Ben, but I can't see you. I'm remembering your brother.
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