A Finger on the Trigger / V. S. Naipaul
I was entranced the first time I looked down a gun-sight with a finger on the trigger. It seemed to me the most private, the most intense moment of conversation with oneself, so to speak, with that split-second of right decision coming and going all the time, almost answering the movements of one’s mind. […]
How to Live a Long Life in Two Days/ Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing else but now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how […]
