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He was beginning to discover that the memory had no calendar. Inside there, all was simultaneous. A sense of time had to be forcibly imposed on it.
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“Paradise is an Arab idea,� he says. “Semitic, anyway. It’s a garden, always a garden. They put a wall around it because that’s how their minds work, they’re inward-turning, not outward-turning. Paradise is safe, not exciting. Like this. Change the mocking-birds in that gully into bulbul birds, and put up a wall, and you’d have it: water, greenness, coolness, peace, and all around you the desert.
“When you’re married and settled down over there on the Minnie Maud, or for that matter if you should move anywhere else, whatever place you live in, become a real part of that place. Mmmmmm? Dig in and work and belong in it and do your share.�
Without some external evidence, he had no way of sorting out truth from wishfulness and self-deception and grievance;
