Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer

Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Journalists, British, General, Literary, Visionary & Metaphysical, Venice (Italy), Fiction, Religious, Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh; India)
ISBN: 9780307390301
Google: 5SYDYLaeGe0C
Amazon: 0307390306
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

I got to my feet uncertainly, like a newborn foal. The other tourists had gone. I was alone on the far bank of the Ganges.

I checked that the boatman was still here – he was – and walked for a while, looking back at Varanasi. As I did so, the feeling that it had been a mistake to come here gradually reversed itself. I was glad, now, that I had: it was a reminder that since this life – the one back on the other other side, over there in Varanasi, back in the world – was the only one you got, the only real crime or mistake was not to make the most of it. The idea of the afterlife or eternity was just what it was revealed to be here: rubbish. Rubbish that no one wanted, that no one could set any value by. What was here was the aftermath of life itself, what was left when your time was up.

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