[b]Jeanette Winterson
You said, Why do I frighten you?
Frighten me? Yes you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together for ever. You act as though there is infinite pleasure and time without end. How can I know that? My experience has been that time always ends. In theory you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the romantics and the religious are right.[/b]
Everybody’s right, nobody’s wrong. Just ask them.
Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.
To the abyss for example.
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
They believed lots of shit like that though.
And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?
And others if they know what’s good for them.
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
Does this take us closer to me or to you?
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.
Apparently not.