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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10006.Oracle_Night?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Oracle Night" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1189101583m/10006.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10006.Oracle_Night?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Oracle Night</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/240.Paul_Auster">Paul Auster</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20336934?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> When time seems to have no value, or can only amount to absolute zero, reassigning, or even assigning any relevance to time can have no bearing on future presents. Paul Auster seems to say that we are all detectives, detecting the truth of our own words, whether we have the courage to say (or write) them or not. The lesson isn’t time, time heals no wounds, only cuts deeper into fresh and festering wounds alike, with the alacrity of a disposable scalpel. We can relive the pain and trials of the past whenever time opts to slice fresh into them, or with every new cut we can expose a truth and bear the sting of its malapropism. While detection can spare us no pains, in the detecting we can steal from time the stronghold of its magnetic field effects, if, of course, we are willing to face aligning our hopes with all that we’ve learned. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/547050?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>