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I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do you look thousands of years into the future? Do you measure what’s happening to you now by what may matter a thousand years hence? I was stumbling and lurching, groping and from time to time drowning, as any man might. I had no view of myself as positioned by fate or happenstance at the birthplace of a continuity that would endure for millennia. How could I? I underestimated every single force that impinged on my existence. It couldn’t have been otherwise. It’s a mere accident that I survived. That’s why I don’t like to talk of it. Talk is suspect. When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie. I despise what is a lie!
— Margon Sperver, “The Wolf Gift” (2012 novel by Anne Rice)
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Tag(s): #Anne Rice #The Wolf Gift #Margon Sperver #literature #lit #gothic horror #life #perspective
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