Chapter 60 · for subscribers
Four minutes of water, eleven days in a city, and a line through a name in a register. I had spent four months on this coast asking whose letter I had answered, and the answer was in a drawer in a flat I had slept in all my life: a boy of twelve went down a lane with a letter in his fist, got turned round on a quay, came back to a quay, and chose. I do not remember one second of it. That is the part I cannot forgive anybody for, and there is nobody left alive to ask.
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