S. E. Lister
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • Hideous Creatures
    • The Immortals >
      • Chapter One
    • Augury
  • Short Stories
    • Spacewalk
    • Kitten
    • A-Bomb
    • Limb
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Updates

Words by other people: Kazuo Ishiguro

3/19/2015

 
"In Poland, Mr Ryder, when I was a conductor, even then, I never thought the wound would heal. When I conducted my orchestra, I always touched my wound, caressed it. Some days I picked at its edges, even pressed it hard between the fingers. You realise soon enough when a wound's not going to heal. The music, when I was a conductor, I knew that's all it was, just a consolation. It helped for a while. I liked the feeling of pressing the wound, it fascinated me. A good wound, it can do that, it fascinates. It looks a little different every day. Has it changed? you wonder. You look at it in the mirror, it looks different. But then you touch it and you know it's the same, your old friend. You do this year after year and then you know it's not going to heal and in the end you get tired of it. You get so tired."

- The Unconsoled

    Author

    Words by me and other wiser people.

    Picture

    Archives

    May 2019
    April 2018
    February 2018
    November 2017
    March 2016
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    Categories

    All
    Arts
    Editing
    Events
    Words By Other People

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.