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A review by thrilled
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
3.0
this little book could have gone further, in my opinion, but that's not to say i didn't find sparks of beauty.
like this:
"now i am old enough to know what i'll never accomplish. i will never be a soldier, a physicist, a thousand other things. it feels like relief."
or this:
"for just a moment, with great effort, i could imagine my will as a force that would not disappear but redistribute when i died, and that all life contained the same force, and that i needn't worry about my impending death because the great responsibility of my life was to contain the force for a while and then relinquish it."
and this:
"look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity."
like this:
"now i am old enough to know what i'll never accomplish. i will never be a soldier, a physicist, a thousand other things. it feels like relief."
or this:
"for just a moment, with great effort, i could imagine my will as a force that would not disappear but redistribute when i died, and that all life contained the same force, and that i needn't worry about my impending death because the great responsibility of my life was to contain the force for a while and then relinquish it."
and this:
"look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity."