Justin Cartwright

…he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history – a river into which you can’t step twice, a collection of biographies end to end, a hilltop to survey the surrounding plains and so on – but also, more so, the anxieties prompted by the spooling of time and the awareness of its unstoppable nature; and random thoughts…

…he is thinking about thoughts; so many thoughts piled up, such a quantity of half-remembered knowledge, so many emotions brought up from the well to spill out: the unrolling of history – a river into which you can’t step twice, a collection of biographies end to end, a hilltop to survey the surrounding plains and so on – but also, more so, the anxieties prompted by the spooling of time and the awareness of its unstoppable nature; and random thoughts…

– Justin Cartwright –

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