Thursday, December 2, 2010

Mind-blowing lines #22

Today: a mind-blowing excerpt from Ghosts, by Paul Auster.

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But the present is no less dark than the past, and its mystery is equal to anything the future might hold. Such is the way of the world: one step at a time, one word and then the next. There are certain things that Blue cannot possibly know at this point. For knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.

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