“From the beginning, reading for me was enchantment as well as rebellion, and an occasion for solitude”: Paul Theroux reflects on a lifetime of reading and writing.
is not a mood that I share. I have seized every chance that I’ve been offered, and some I’ve snatched; many of my choices were reckless, some of them colossal blunders, resulting in a different kind of regret—the regret of excess, of having been a greedy fool.
One of my enthusiasms in travel has been studying the art of the places I’ve been. I’ve collected watercolors by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English travellers in India—the Daniells, Edward Lear, William Simpson, George Chinnery, and others. Watercolors are fragile and easily fade; I’ve sold most of them. In Africa, I coveted the masks and fetish objects that I saw used in traditional ceremonies in the nineteen-sixties.
It is not the big number—eighty—that shocks me , but, rather, the banal image of an implacable hourglass, most of its sand heaped at the bottom, the last negligible pinch of grains sifting down, unstoppable, a finite amount, less each time I look. I tell myself that, at this point in my life, my age has no meaning. My routines have hardly changed.
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