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«What you would like is the opening of an abstract and absolute space and time in which you could move, following an exact, taut trajectory; but when you seem to be succeeding, you realize you are motionless, blocked, forced to repeat everything from the beginning.»

« You, reader, believed that there, on the platform, my gaze was glued to the hands of the round clock of an old station, hands pierced like halberds, in the vain attempt to turn them back, to move backward over the cemetery of spent hours, lying lifeless in their circular pantheon. »

« Ses yeux, qui vainement voulaient vous éviter,
Déjà pleins de langueur, ne pouvaient vous quitter.
Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage;
Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage. »

just want to say that the title AND the cover are very misleading

" The old man said, 'You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.' "

" [...] which would slay bounty hunters... whatever they were. He had an indistinct, glimpsed darkly impression: of something merciless that carried a printed list and a gun, that moved machine-like through the flat, bureaucratic job of killing. A thing without emotions, or even a face; a thing that if killed got replaced immediately by another resembling it. And so on, until everyone real and alive had been shot."

Poor Simon can't get a BREAK

Would be great if Stephen King didn't spoil the fucking book in his introduction <3