He stood in the street. There was nothing to do. He hadn’t realized this could happen to him. The moment was empty of urgency and purpose. He hadn’t planned on this. Where was the life he’d always led? There was nowhere he wanted to go, nothing to think about, no one waiting. How could he take a step in any direction if all direction were the same?
✖ Via Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2003, p. 180

Previously on Skandalon: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo



• Jun 25, 2010 link notes tagged: art  novel  book  author  DeLillo  Cosmopolis  lost  space  gnomon  direction  sense  orientation  lost  loser  life 

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