"... well, every trip can be treated as an expedition to the pole, even a small trip, even a city cab ride.
Today - surely even a metro ride. "
pole is a faction of the Russian Orthodox Old Believers, who believe that the evil of this world have easier access to the man when it remains stationary when it is passive. Therefore, no not be static, you should be in constant motion, not stop. Still go ahead.
"- I can not go home. (...)
- Do you have the address?
- I - speaks and recites: - Kuznetsk 1946 by the 78th
- It's just forget it. "
Tokarczuk writes according to the faith of poles. This book is a collection of smaller and larger human history, thought and mention of the narrator's own journey. Scraps of thoughts and observations, written apparently without rhyme or reason. Because the book does not stand still rushing forward, in itself, being a kind of journey. Jumps from one thought to another, breaks stories, to get back to it after a few dozen pages. It is like a box of puzzle, where pieces like a match, but it's not about to put them in a perfect whole. You have to go, still go ahead.
"... a stage which is the ultimate goal, wherever we traveled, we travel always in his direction. "No matter where I am, no matter where I am. I am. "
" pole "are like a travel diary. A little chaotic, in constant motion. Written on his knee, railway stations, on trains and airplanes. Sleepy head with a pencil and thoughtful. Hiding in a suitcase wrinkled thoughts as things. ... And not only gives people he meets on the road immortality, he recorded with in the letters, their life stories. A scientist with no legs, a deformed bodies forever sealed in glass jars, an old diarrhea and other things and the people.
It is no ordinary book, it's the journey kept on paper, as well as chaotic journey, time rushes, and sometimes waiting for hours for the plane, filled with thoughts that come to mind at the time of the road only. Because I can not stand in one place, you should be in constant motion.
"Airplane Irkutsk-Moscow. Starts from Irkutsk at 8.00 am and dolatuje to Moscow at the same time - eight in the morning the same day. This is precisely the moment when the sun rises, so goes the whole time at dawn. Continues in a moment, in a large, quiet, spacious and Siberia now.
That should be the time the confession of a lifetime. Time passes inside the aircraft, but does not bleed out. "
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