It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.
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Marguerite Duras
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Blue Eyes, Black Hair
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Outside: Selected Writings
Practicalities
Summer Rain
The Lover
The Malady of Death
The North China Lover
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When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without evn knowing that's what he's doing.