and then I’d realise what had happened and I’d say we were talking about glaciers and you’d bombard me with facts about them.
And your brain would fill in the gaps and make up a narrative about what just happened.”
“Yeah, but what about the polar bear? What about the meal tonight? Would I – this other me – would she remember what I ate?”
“Not necessarily. But I have seen it happen. It’s amazing what the brain can fill in and what it is fine with forgetting.”
“So, what was I like? Yesterday, I mean.” He locked eyes. They were pretty eyes.
Nora momentarily felt pulled into his orbit like a satellite to Earth. “Exquisite, charming, intelligent, beautiful. Much like now.”
She laughed it off. “Stop being so French.” Awkward pause. “How many lives have you had?” she said eventually.
“How many have you experienced?” “Too many. Nearing three hundred. Three hundred?”
“I have been so many things. On every continent on Earth. And yet I have never found the life for me.”
“I am resigned to being this way for ever. There will never be a life that I truly want to live for ever.”
“I get too curious. I get too much of a yearning to live another way. And you don’t need to make that face.”
“It’s not sad. I am happily in limbo.” “But what if one day there is no video store?”
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