The Tunnel by William H. Gass

Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Literary
ISBN: 9781564782137
Google: xK-YJ_YMaDUC
Amazon: 0679437673
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1995-02-20T13:00:00+00:00

Family Album

These album pages are as lightless as oblivion, and as softly absorbent. I hate pasting the pale faces of my photographs on such a surface. It’s like lowering them away. So here is the grave-space of the painfully remembered. When I was a kid I would stretch a blanket up over the headboard of my bed and pretend its darkness protected me from every other darkness: that in closets, that in drawers, in pockets, purses, forests, basements, night skies, caves. Now I’ve drawn these sheets around me as if fearful of the boogie. And here I make my movie of your body, breath by breath.

This is no possum play. It’s true, I used to cuddle you and now I cuddle my covers, but I am not pretending this blanket is your body or that these pages turn of my accord. The light that arrives through that little pinhole in the iris, the words and images which leave, do so indifferent to anyone’s permission. I am as helpless here as you are. The dead do not die, but, as we know, dance to the rattle of their own bones. “Red Sails in the Sunset.” When the “Deep Purple” falls. Satchmo on the last trumpet.

Darkness is made of disgraced light, and the deepest fell on the first day, even as the sound, of Lu-ci-fer—the first word—faded.

Chaos could have been a camera cloth, the space God faced, a coated paper, and Creation simply, click.

Click. I feel the photo of my last face has been taken.

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