"For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. We live on."
Well, this is the last five lines of Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram, meaning Man of God's Peace. (London: Abacus, 2004)
Wow. Take a deep breath now.
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Amazing book.
ReplyDeleteYou left out the penultimate sentence, "God forgive us." I've also seen others leave out the antepenultimate sentence, "God help us." This is an inexcusable violation of the author's text. If Roberts doesn't say what you want to say, there's nothing to stop you from saying it yourself.
ReplyDeleteSpot the fuq on
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