Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Quotes from the Assault to deep inside the tunnel of the past

Theme: deep inside the tunnel of the past (avoidance) 
  • " I don't know yet. Pilot, perhaps."(45)( what do you want to be?) 
  • " For Anton, who was still too young to absorb the past, each new event erased the preceding one from awareness and buried it in his subconscious." (47)
  • "... as if his tears had washed away his memories." (52)
  • "he had no desire to know" (57) 
  • "...he wanted to say good-bye once and for all- now, immediately." (61)
  • "He only cared about the place, not the people. ... he wanted to run away." (64)
  • "...Now something was expected from him, a question from long ago. His should be the opening move... but he had no desire to begin. " (67)
  • "...they could go to hell with their monument, for all you cared." ( 75) 
  • "With averted face he saw the glass break into large pieces that landed in splinters in the iron lid of the stove.." (93)
  • “deep inside the tunnel of the past” (108)
  • "there is nothing to discuss, really. What happened, ahppend. It doesn't bother me, believe me." (110) 
  • "A victim? of course... yet at the same time, he felt as it had all happened to someone else." (112)  
  • "No idea. Never wondered about it." (117) 
  • “Care, care... It can’t be changed now, even if I understood it” (117)
  • “Not until it ended, and with it every single memory… a blue pillar of smoke…from the ashtray…”(146)
  • " Therefore such a person has his face turned toward void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory."/ what do we still have behind us?  (151)
  • "...but he knew if he once began taking tranquilizers he would never top."(156) 
  • " Everyone did what he did, and not anything else." (160) 

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