Pascal Mercier

…the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now… To sit once more on the warm moss and hold the cap – it’s the absurd wish to go back behind myself in time and take myself – the only marked by events – along on this journey.

…the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now… To sit once more on the warm moss and hold the cap – it’s the absurd wish to go back behind myself in time and take myself – the only marked by events – along on this journey.

– Pascal Mercier –

Night Train to Lisbon

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