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At last I could row no further.
Foe (1986)
He is the child of his silence.
Foe (1986)
Perhaps they wanted to prevent him from ever telling his story, who he was, where his home lay, how it came about that he was taken.
Foe (1986)
I do not love him, but he is mine.
Foe (1986)
It is not wholly as I imagined it would be. What I thought would be your writing-table is not a table but a bureau.
Foe (1986)
If we devote ourselves to finding holes exactly shaped to house such great words as Freedom, Honor, Bliss, I agree, we shall spend a lifetime slipping and sliding and searching, and all in vain.
Foe (1986)
Seen from too remote a vantage, life begins to lose its particularity. All shipwrecks become the same shipwreck, all castaways the same castaway, sunburnt, lonely, clad in the skins of the beast he has slain.
Foe (1986)
But the island on which I was cast away was quite another place: a great rocky hill with a flat top, rising sharply from the sea on all sides except one, dotted with drab bushes that never flowered and never shed their leaves.
Foe (1986)
To tell the truth in all its substance you must have quiet and a comfortable chair away from all distraction, and a window to stare through and then the knack of seeing waves when there are fields before your eyes…
Foe (1986)
When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to be gone: of being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso.
Foe (1986)
But this is not a place of words. Each syllable, as it comes out, is caught and filled with water and diffused. This is a place where bodies have their own signs. It is the home of Friday.
Foe (1986)
I am not a story, Mr Foe…I choose rather to tell of the Island, of myself and Crusoe and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.
Foe (1986)