Author:  Zadie Smith
Book:    On Beauty
Viewed: 15 - Published at: 8 years ago

begins with you walking towards a huge pit. The pit is on the other side of a precipice, which you cannot see over until you are right at its edge. Your death is awaiting you in that pit. You don't know what it looks like or sounds like or smells like. You don't know whether it will be good or bad. You just walk towards it. Your will is a clarinet and your footsteps are attended by all the violins. The closer you get to the pit, the more you begin to have the

( Zadie Smith )
[ On Beauty ]
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