'It doesn't matter, too much, generally speaking, a human life; it can be summed up in a small number of events - his father had just relived for the last time, the hopes and failures that formed the story of his life.'
This made me shiver when I came across this piece that I had written down from Michel Houellebecq's book The Map and the Territory. page 149 if you are interested. I remember at the time being troubled by that as I was reading the book and as I read it again this morning in my notes about the book I realized that I still am.
This made me shiver when I came across this piece that I had written down from Michel Houellebecq's book The Map and the Territory. page 149 if you are interested. I remember at the time being troubled by that as I was reading the book and as I read it again this morning in my notes about the book I realized that I still am.