Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Author:David Malouf [Malouf, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2012-11-30T14:00:00+00:00

And the stone, once launched, had a life of its own. It flew in all directions, developed a capacity to multiply, accelerate, leave wounds; and the wounds were real even if the stone was not, and would not heal. Andy McKillop felt miserably that he was the first victim of it.

He mooched round the settlement with his head down, scared silly by what he had achieved, and sat at times looking at his closed fist and telling himself that when he opened it, by some magic he did not believe in, it would be there, solid, graspable. See? See? You’ll believe me now, I reckon. He would make them recognise it at last, as proof of the non-existence of that other, heavier and more fatal thing, an imagination.

But best of all, he thought, might be to tip his head back and swallow the bastard as if he had never coughed it up in the first place.

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