I tell myself I talked to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are… — J. M. Coetzee
I tell myself I talked to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will.
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But this is not a place of words. Each syllable, as it comes out, is caught and filled with water and diffused. This is a place where bodies have their own signs. It is the home of Friday.
Nothing I have forgotten is worth the remembering.
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Return to me the substance I have lost, Mr. Foe. That is my entreaty.
p. 51
