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A review by avaaliceann
A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
3.0
"I'd stare at the initials and feel alone. Even in the crowd.
The future flew past in a flash of grim. The clock was ticking, and I didn't like that clock.
Yes, it was known that we couldn't stay young. But it was hard to believe, somehow. Say what you like about us, our legs and arms were strong and streamlined. I realize that now. Our stomachs were taut and unwrinkled, our foreheads similar. When we ran, if we chose to, we ran like flashes of silk. We had the vigor of those freshly born.
Relatively speaking.
And no, we wouldn't be like this forever. We knew it, on a rational level."
"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything.
Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here for-ever. Free.
Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me.
Molecules never die, I thought."
The future flew past in a flash of grim. The clock was ticking, and I didn't like that clock.
Yes, it was known that we couldn't stay young. But it was hard to believe, somehow. Say what you like about us, our legs and arms were strong and streamlined. I realize that now. Our stomachs were taut and unwrinkled, our foreheads similar. When we ran, if we chose to, we ran like flashes of silk. We had the vigor of those freshly born.
Relatively speaking.
And no, we wouldn't be like this forever. We knew it, on a rational level."
"If you could be nothing, you could also be everything.
Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here for-ever. Free.
Part of the timeless. The sky and the ocean would also be me.
Molecules never die, I thought."