The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep by Steven Heighton

Author:Steven Heighton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Published: 2017-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

TWO

The Green Line

He was collaborating with Death. You could have said that Death had a contract with the captain.

—CÉLINE, VOYAGE AU BOUT DE LA NUIT

He who digs a grave for another falls into it himself.

—GREEK CYPRIOT PROVERB

Odd to consider that an action—say, the soft, involuntary squeezing of a trigger—is as irreversible a moment after it happens as it is a day later, a year, a century. Hard not to believe that as time passes, completed actions somehow solidify, are embedded ever deeper in history’s weave, just as the dead seem ever more dead with passing years. It’s an illusion. No momentary molten state separates the event from its registration in permanence. No penumbra, no quantum wobble. A nanosecond after the trigger is squeezed, the accident is a finished fact, and the dead will never be more dead than they are now.

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