Author: Claude Levi-Strauss

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• Jane Smiley (1)
  • IN: At Paradise Gate (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see. I am subject to a double infirmity: all that I perceive offends me, and I constantly reproach myself for not seeing as much as I should.
    FROM: Tristes Tropiques, (1955), NULL, Belgium/France