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The world seemed vast, but he wondered if there would come a day when the last wild place vanished, when old hunters like him would sit in taverns, drunk on ale and weeping with nostalgia, or stumbling pointlessly down stinking alleys and streets, yet another victim of progress.
Stupid people always had a reason to be angry but didn’t have the capacity to understand that they were angry because they were frustrated, and they were frustrated because they didn’t understand, and they didn’t understand because they were stupid.
History lived in memory; only each person’s memory was their own and nobody remembered things the same way. So history was also an ongoing argument between truths.
Sometimes a refuge makes the strongest cage, for one then has little interest in testing the bars.’
To live is to lose the faith you were born with to a thousand cuts, each year bleeding into the next. The eyes of the innocent see a world very differently from what you and I see. To know this is to revisit one’s own loss, eye to eye with sad reflection, and to feel once more that dreadful ache in your chest.’
‘You tease me.’ ‘Teasing is our greatest weapon. The skin of men is so thin, we forever test to see how easily it bleeds.’
It is a necessary conceit to believe things cannot change beyond all recognition. To greet the day to come as if it was but a shadow cast forward by the day just done, is how we fashion the links of the chain that we call our lives.
