Kelli’s Reviews > How to Stop Time > Status Update

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.

It was the age of noise, and so suddenly playing music had a new importance. It made you a master of the world. Amid the accidental cacophony of modern life to be able to play music, to make sense out of noise, could briefly make you a kind of god. A creator. An orderer. A comfort giver.

‘People talk about a moral compass and I think that is it. We always know the right and wrong for ourselves, the north and south. People can tell you all kinds of wrong directions, lead you around any corner. You can’t trust any of that. What do they say in car adverts? About the navigation system? Comes as standard. Everything you need to know about right and wrong is already there. It comes as standard.’