The Man Who Saw Everything

by Deborah Levy

He was kind and unjudging, as strangers sometimes can be, usually because history has not got in the way.

‘He doesn’t care about his own life so he doesn’t care about the lives of others.’

She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad.

You were the snake in the reeds. You walked away when I most needed you.

He doesn’t care about his own life so he doesn’t care about the lives of others.