“A lot happens in our little everyday life, but it always
happens within the same routine, and more than anything else it has changed my
perspective of time. For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain
that had to be covered, with the future as a distant prospect, hopefully a
bright one, and never boring at any rate, now it is interwoven with our life
here and in a totally different way. Were I to portray this with a visual image
it would have to be that of a boat in a lock: life is slowly and ineluctably
raised by time seeping in from all sides. Apart from the details, everything is
always the same. And with every passing day the desire grows for the moment
when life will reach the top, for the moment when the sluice gates open and
life finally moves on. At the same time I see that precisely this
repetitiveness, this enclosedness, this unchangingness is necessary, it
protects me.”
~ Karl Ove Knausgaard, My
Struggle: Book One, 2009
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