Status Updates From Poczucie kresu

Ik denk dat ik op taalkundig vlak echt veel nieuwe inventieve woorden heb geleerd, en gezien. Maar het verhaal zelf is zeer landerig.

‘ when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully.’

‘But time… How time first grounds us and then confound us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagine we were being responsible, but we were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time… Give us enough time in our best supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainty whimsical.’