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29 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1980
He'd watch her coming towards him like a ghost returning from the path of stones.The narrator alternates between reflecting on the movements of the woman and the man and their meaning, and on the bare plain and the unseen sea. As in Malady, death clings to the text. It is hovering there, above and around the characters, waiting for its moment to arrive. While more explicitly discussed in Malady, it is more menacing here—less absolute in its threat but more chaotic in its approach. A haunting text, and one which almost demands to be read in parallel with The Malady of Death (in case that wasn't already obvious).