Monday 28 August 2017

FRAGMENTS FROM "STAMBOUL TRAIN"


SENTENCES THAT FACINATED ME -


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"If I could sleep, he thought with longing, I could remember more clearly I could remember more clearly all the things that have to be remembered."


"She felt tender towards him, as though he had given her new hope of a life which was not a continuous struggle for one's own hand; perhaps the world she thought, was not so hard."


"She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to."


"I don't think about you, I've got other things to think about."


"When I love, she thought, I do not think of what I owe."


"He said defiantly, 'I don't think about you. I've got other things to think about."


"Faithfulness was not the same as remembrance; one could forget and be faithful and one could remember and be faithless."


"There was nothing in the pockets but a box of mat5ches and a packet of Gold Flake."


"...that the man who, after firing his last shot, was bayoneted outside the sorting-room had been left-handed and a lover of Delius's music, the melancholy idealistic music of a man without a faith in anything but death."






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