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235 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1981
"The fact that people are growing more distant from each other every moment, that they are stubbornly avoiding looking into each other's eyes, that the smell of aged blood, of rotten meat in the land, are being covered up. We were covering ourselves. We were so accustomed to being covered, to being locked that we could no longer manage to be completely open, to be just ourselves in those letters, over the phone, in coming face to face with averted gazes. We were like ancient cities buried seven stories under the ground. ... Doubtless, we had lived; it is obvious from the excavations that we had lived. What does a life mean when its lock is not broken, its cork is not removed, when it hasn't joined itself to life? We were not there, we never existed."