Hanya Yanagihara

Das Volk der Bäume

Cathy Trình

Tija

l had gone into science for its adventure, but to them, adventure was some- thing to be endured, not sought, on the road to inevitable greatness.

gods are for stories and heavens and other realms; they are not to be seen by men. But when we encroach on their world, when we see what we are not meant to see, how can anything but disaster follow?

Age, then, is not something that can he understood; it is a preoccupation of the old, and the old is anyone older than oneself. It is a subject that has no relevance, a subject that seems a bore, an indulgence and lament of the weak-minded and feeble and querulous. 

 It was startling to remember that I had once been one of those people as well. Now, however, I no longer was.

And so they remained frozen in their vigilance, togging between hope and despair, waiting for their world to be restored.

But until we find it we are searchers, two figures moving through a landscape while outside and around us the world is born and lives and dies and the stars burn themselves slowly into darkness 

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