Doré, A Voyage to the Moon, 1868
Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day, that a
few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they
do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—-the
charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture … these must be
resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little
events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning.
Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.
Arundhati Roy
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