They lay without touching, without talking, only looking. Turning on her side, she saw he’d already taken the same position. God, she wasn’t doing any of this right.Ĭamille smiled, thankful he’d lightened the moment enough for her to lean back onto one of the pillows. She didn’t know how to look at him, if she should lie down or just come to her senses and ask him to leave. She sat on the bed, and the other side of the hand-rolled mattress dipped with Oscar’s weight. ![]() Camille’s fingers trembled as she reached for the lamp on the dresser and twisted the knob, lowering the wick until the light it gave off was that of a small candle’s flame. “Oscar hung his jacket on the back of a chair and undid the first few buttons of his checked shirt. Julian Barnes Born place: in Leicester, The United Kingdom Born date JanuSee more on GoodReads Popular quotes What was the line Adrian used to quote? 'History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” Even if you have assiduously kept records – in words, sound, pictures – you may find that you have attended to the wrong kind of record-keeping. Discovering, for example, that as the witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. Learning the new emotions that time brings. What you fail to do is look ahead, and then imagine yourself looking back from the future point. You may go further and consider your own approaching death, which, despite what company you may muster, can only be faced alone. You imagine the loss of status, the loss of desire – and desirability. You imagine yourself being lonely, divorced, widowed children growing away from you, friends dying. “Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. ― Julian Barnes, quote from The Sense of an Ending Time.give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.” What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. We imagined we were being responsible but we were only being cowardly. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. ![]() Instead, I mowed my lawn, I took holidays, I had my life.īut time.how time first grounds us and then confounds us. I would never do those things adolescence had dreamt about. However.who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"? There was a moment in my late twenties when I admitted that my adventurousness had long since petered out. Which ones I was not sure, only that passion and danger, ecstasy and despair (but then more ecstasy) would be in attendance. ![]() I shall live as people in novels live and have lived. I shall go there, do this, discover that, love her, and then her and her and her. “I remember a period in late adolescence when my mind would make itself drunk with images of adventurousness.
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