Secrecy by Rupert Thomson

Author:Rupert Thomson [Thomson, Rupert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-59051-686-7
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2014-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

The girl’s body had been delivered shortly before midnight on Friday. At dawn on Sunday, and without entirely understanding why, I surgically removed the section of skin with the dog’s head carved into it. I pinned it to a flat piece of cork and placed it in a jar of alcohol. As I returned to the body, I noticed a green blush or stain on the right side of the abdomen, a sure sign that the process of decomposition was under way. I had finished just in time.

Since then, Earhole had made a second journey to the lazaretto, where Belbo had seen to the burning of the body. No trace of it now remained. In its place on the marble slab lay the fruits of thirty hours’ almost uninterrupted work. As always, I was struck by the contrast between the crude, grubby shapelessness of the molds and the specific, subtle secrets I knew them to contain. Looking at the outside, you wouldn’t have been able to guess the first thing about the girl’s appearance—except, perhaps, for her height—but there was this eerie, magical fact: the space inside would look exactly like her. Every detail of her physical being had been captured, stored—immortalized. Though she might seem to have gone, she was actually still there, suspended between two different forms of existence, made of air.

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