Gus Moystad’s Reviews > The Real Life of Sebastian Knight > Status Update

“I cannot help thinking that there is an occult resemblance between a man and the date of his death. Sebastian Knight d. 1936.... This date to me seems the reflection of that name in a pool of rippling water.”

“And the reason of his discomfort was not that he was moral in an immoral age, or immoral in a moral one, […]; it was simply his becoming aware that the rhythm of his inner being was so much richer than that of other souls.”

This would’ve hit so hard when I was 16.