The History of History by Ida Hattemer-Higgins

Author:Ida Hattemer-Higgins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Psychological Fiction, Amnesiacs, Berlin (Germany) - History - 20th Century, Fiction:Historical, General, Psychological, Young Women, Fiction, Berlin (Germany)
ISBN: 9780307272775
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2011-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

She spent the latter half of the day at the public pool. In the echoing hall, she swam up and down until she was hypnotized and could not think. On the way back home, she looked up at the sky.

She would later call it a spiritual aftershock. She looked up; she saw a complex grid in the sky. A grid of quasicrystals on the ceiling of the world, like the ceiling of the shrine of Darb-i-Imam, only deeper, only ghostlier, etched into the filling night. And at first Margaret was full of fear. She looked up into the quasicrystal heavens and was frightened that there was a pattern, there was a design governing behavior on earth. Past and present, a repeating pattern always circular, knowing no progress that does not loop back again. The heavens were a bureaucracy, cycle-bound, administering life on earth—playing fast and loose with Margaret’s red lips and tearing heart. And her head went weak.

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