![]() ![]() Downstream where the younger ones stand thick, you can see them flounder, lose footing, wash away. The old ones are washed away and their bodies go swiftly by, like logs in the current. You can see the way it thins out, upstream from you. Your time, the time of all your contemporaries, schoolmates, your loves and your adversaries, is that part of the shifting bar on which you stand. And the whole long bar is slowly moving down that river of time, washing away at the upstream end and building up downstream. The younger ones stand braced on the bar down river. The ones born before you, the ones older than you, are upriver from you. You are born and you have to stand on that narrow, submerged bar, where everyone stands. There is a long, shallow bar of sand and gravel that runs right down the middle of the river. Picture a very swift torrent, a river rushing down between rocky walls. ![]() It just seems to remind me how things are. Tush was gone, and too many others were gone, and I sought chill comfort in an analogy of death that has been with me for years. I looked out of the jet at December gray, at cloud towers reaching up toward us. Puss gave me a sleepywink and then she was gone too. So they sat, holding hands, and Jan fell asleep. "Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see."Ī fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his original aim.įrom Chapter Eight of Pale Gray for Guilt “Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.” I am putting down some I like, and you are free to add any by e-mailing me. There are a couple of websites which have various quotes from MacDonald’s books. CLEVER JDM RESPONSE TO A PROBLEM POSED BY A FAN. ![]()
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