Entirely Local and Nearly Eternal

The Gazette reported the outside world in only contingent fashion: as a source of weather, as the destination of migratory birds currently quitting mid-Wessex. There was also a weekly chart of the night sky. Martha examined this as she did the market prices. Where Sirius might be glimpsed, what dull red planet blinked near the Eastern horizon, how to recognize Orion's belt. This, she thought, was how the human spirit should divide itself, between the entirely local and the nearly eternal. How much of her life had been spent with all the stuff in the middle: career, money, sex, heart-trouble, appearance, anxiety, fear, yearning.

 

Julian Barnes

16.4.07 10:38
 


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(16.4.07 21:59)
 I'm intrigued as to the examples of entirely local, in the text before your quote begins ... gonna tell us?


jon (20.4.07 22:40)
 er.. yes. bear with me. i'll put some kind of abridged version when i find the book


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