The Singularities by John Banville

Author:John Banville [Banville, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2022-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

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I am in the Sky Room again, at my table, working, supposedly. Outside, the day wanes; indoors, too. What should disqualify me as a biographer, what should disqualify me as anything at all, really, is that I cannot take this benighted world at its own measure, and likewise, or more so, the people with which this world is infested. They are so little, and so late. Yet I hear the wind in a crack in the casement, a sound so faint it is almost a nothing, a piping barely audible yet sharp, a tiny song such as Josefine the Mouse Singer herself might have sung, behind the wainscot, standing in front of her folk, and I summon up the others, all the successive others who will be here after I am gone, and for whom the air will pipe again, perhaps, like this, of an evening, in the failing light, and I say to myself that despite everything, even on such inconsiderable evidence, it cannot all be for nothing.

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