Aseel’s Reviews > Hangsaman > Status Update

I think if I could tell someone everything, every single thing, inside my head,
then I would be gone, and not existing any more, and I would sink away into that lovely nothing-space
where you don’t have to worry any more and no one ever hears you or cares and you can say anything
but of course you wouldn’t be any more at all and you couldn’t really do

No, indeed, I do not read Shakespeare any more; I have passed the age when such things are felt to be
essential, and have reached the age when half a dozen esoteric quotations are all I ever need—those

Somewhere in the world trees were growing, Natalie thought as she walked down the hall of
the house where she now lived; her feet on the linoleum floor made a flat sound, as of one
walking upon dead earth.

A sort of intoxication possessed Natalie; this could surely not be the intoxication, she thought
breathlessly, born of one weak cocktail sipped timidly in the kitchen. It was instead, and she was
almost sure of this, the preliminary faint stirrings of something about to happen. The idea once
born, she knew it was true; something incredible was going to happen,