“Whatever I do, however I find a way to live, I will tell these stories. I have spoken to every person I have encountered these last difficult days…because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don’t want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.”
“What is the What”
Excerpt from the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; written by Dave Eggers.
I highly recommend the read. :-)
1 comment:
from the excerpt you have included here, i DEFINITELY want to read this book!
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