Status Updates From Nocturnes for the King of N...

“Didn't they know (as I did) that the best thing had already happened, that their long lives, that progression from this year's hits and haircuts to next year's, from a first job to a second, a sixth, […] that this long sequence of slightly varying incidents would give them only time to see the past from every angle, as though the past were a statue they kept pacing around in ever widening circles?”

“I've searched for you and not found you, attempted to forget you and found you everywhere, in foreign children, in my own childhood memories, in the bodies of hundreds of men I've ransacked, tearing them open as though surely this one must be concealing the contraband goods, only to throw them aside, meaningless raffia”

Father figure vibes