Glen Hirshberg's Blog - Posts Tagged "javier-marias"
More Marias
Tuesday Round-up of Everything, Week of 6/17, Post 3 1/2:
Javier Marías, again. Stunningly pithy for a Platonic Once ler. And I recognize this flavor of ghosts-and-loss pondering. Yes I do:
"The narratives we invent...will render us fictions. Even our gestures will continue to be made by someone who inherited them or saw them and was unknowingly mimetic or repeated them on purpose to invoke us and create a strange, momentary and vicarious illusion of our life...We lose everything because everything remains except us."
Javier Marías, again. Stunningly pithy for a Platonic Once ler. And I recognize this flavor of ghosts-and-loss pondering. Yes I do:
"The narratives we invent...will render us fictions. Even our gestures will continue to be made by someone who inherited them or saw them and was unknowingly mimetic or repeated them on purpose to invoke us and create a strange, momentary and vicarious illusion of our life...We lose everything because everything remains except us."
