The Other Name by Jon Fosse

Author:Jon Fosse [Jon Fosse]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781910695920
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

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And I see myself standing and looking at two lines that cross, one brown, one purple, and I see how I’ve painted the lines slowly, with a lot of paint, thick paint, two long wide lines, and they’ve dripped, and where the lines cross the colours blend beautifully and drip and I’m thinking that this isn’t a picture but suddenly the picture is the way it’s supposed to be, it’s done, and then I step a little way back from the picture and I stand and look at it and then I see myself lying in the bed at The Country Inn and I think it’s Tuesday today, only Tuesday, and I might as well get up, or in any case get dressed, I think and I sit up on the edge of the bed and I think well now, that was quite a night, I think and I get up and go get my trousers from where they’re lying on the floor and I put them on and I pull my black pullover over my head and I put on my black velvet jacket and then I sit down on the edge of the bed and untie my shoelaces, pull my shoes on, tie the laces again, and I see my black overcoat hung on the chair and I think that I hardly slept at all even though I was so tired when I lay down, or actually, I must have slept, but maybe I just didn’t realize it? I think, and strangely enough I’m not as tired as I was before, I think and I get up and go into the bathroom and splash cold water on my face, once, several times, and I take off the hairband and run my fingers through my long grey hair and and gather up my hair again and tie it in the black hairband and then I rinse out my mouth with cold water, gurgle, spit it out, I do that several times and now I’m ready to go get breakfast, as ready as I’ll ever be, I think, they start serving breakfast at six o’clock, I remember that, yes, I haven’t started forgetting everything even if my hair has turned grey, I usually go to bed early and get up early, around nine o’clock I go to bed and I usually fall asleep right away and I wake up at around four and get up and I’m usually painting by five, that’s how it goes, I think, and I think that breakfast’ll be good and then I drape the long black coat over my arm and I put the brown shoulderbag on and then I unlock the door and turn off the light and I shut the door and I put the key in the pocket of my velvet jacket and I walk over to the lift and I make the sign of the cross while I’m in the lift, I do that every morning, either I just make the

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