...It is precisely the first steps of evil that we must be aware of; once embarked on the path, whichever path it may be, it is hard to turn back - as hard as for the drunkard who deludes himself that when he has emptied the bottle in front of him, the last one for sure, he'll be able to stop. I don't doubt the Lord hears deathbed conversions, but I believe that if by some miracle the dying man is cured, the conversion won't count for much in his subsequent existence against his entire previous life. It is difficult for the lyric incandescence of a moment to overcome the epic continuity of a story...
- from: Inferences from a Sabre -by- Claudio Magris
trans. - Mark Thompson
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment