It took me a month to read Remains of the Day. An impeccable, English description of a butler's 6 day sojourn into England's hamlets during which he reminisces on a good twenty years of service he has engaged in. The book inches into the future from the present like the butler's ford, leisurely trudging ahead on empty roads. While that happens, it takes big leaps backwards into his past...it moves back more than forward. While "time" moves ahead and the present moves ahead allowing the future to join it...and become present, people do not move thus! They flow against the flow of time...inching forward but leaping behind.
This book is the first of its kind for me. Staying distant and outside my sphere of empathy until the last 15 pages...after which it comes so close it twists everything inside!
This book is the first of its kind for me. Staying distant and outside my sphere of empathy until the last 15 pages...after which it comes so close it twists everything inside!
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