STAMMERED SONGBOOK by Erwin Mortier

Author:Erwin Mortier [Erwin Mortier]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782271475
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: 2015-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

And now you are a blue-veined china doll. You no longer wear tights but thick woollen socks. The winter bends your fingers into small, cold claws. In your footwear your toes curl against your soles. So your slow withering begins. Winter after winter you become a little more bent, you contract around yourself, under the increasingly thick sweaters and coats with which we try to keep you warm—one great vanishing point.

I shall have to restrain her, he says. Otherwise I’ll never have a moment’s rest. I can’t be everywhere at once. And if she gets into the drawers and grabs for a knife or breaks a glass… She doesn’t know what a knife is any more, or slivers of glass, how sharp they are. I’ve applied for a wheelchair from the Health Service. Then I shall restrain her, there’s nothing else for it.

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