Snacko
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Re: Something about nothing (0)
Now that nothing is defeated, does that leave something?
The desert creeps in on a man's land. Not a fellah, but he does own some land. Did own. From a boy, he has repaired the wall, mortared, carried stone heavy as he, lifted, set in place. Still the desert comes. Is the wall a traitor, letting it in? Is the boy possessed by a djinn who makes his hands do the work wrong? Is the desert's attack too powerful for any boy, or wall, or dead father and mother?
No. The desert moves in. It happens, nothing else. No djinn in the boy, no treachery in the wall, no hostility in the desert. Nothing.
-Thomas Pynchon, V., Chapter 3: In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations
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[Last edited by Snacko at 09-02-2009 11:38 PM]
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