Dec 9, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
The print on the elevator’s DOOR CLOSE button was almost worn off. I pointed it out to Mother and said, “I bet there are a few psychiatrists in this building.” “What makes you say that?” “Look at the button.” “So?”...
Dec 9, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
…people are different from animals because they can have pictures on the screens in their heads of things which they are not looking at. They can have pictures of someone in another room. Or they can have a picture of what is going to happen tomorrow. Or they...
Dec 1, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
The television was showing the same American series we ourselves were watching in the Schweinfurth’s living room, such that, as I stood at the window, the image and the sound of the American series reached me simultaneously, but from two different sources,...
Nov 14, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
“Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky, then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies. You throw your plough aside and, your head completely empty of thought, you begin walking toward the west. Heading toward a...
