[lit-ideas] Inheritance of Loss
- From: "JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:12:17 -0500
I hadn't checked my P. O. Box for a few weeks until yesterday, and I found
therein a book I had ordered some time ago: "The Inheritance of Loss", by
Kiran Desai.
My memory is obviously going, going, gone.
Was this book suggested by someone on this list?? Perhaps I stumbled across
it via some website or other --
I haven't had a chance to start it (won't have, until tomorrow), but I do
love the quote on one of the face pages:
"Boast of Quietness
Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.
The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside,
Sure of my life and my death, I observe the ambitious and would like to
understand them.
Their day is in feeling we are all voices of the same poverty.
They speak of homeland.
My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword, the
willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.
Time is living me.
More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.
They are indispensable, singular, worth of tomorrow.
My name is someone and anyone.
I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to
arrive."
Jorge Luis Borges
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