END OF AN EPOCH

photo caption: 75Grand/north (L) Sol Lewitt; (R) Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Christopher Wool

"...It might well be the end of everything," he said. "That's why I hate cold countries, and love the warm ones, where there's no winter, and when night comes you feel an opening up of the life there, instead of a closing down. Don't you feel that?"

"Yes," she said, "but I'm not sure I prefer the warm countries. I don't know. I'm not sure I don't feel that it's wrong to try to escape the night and winter, and that if you do you'll have to pay for it somehow."

"Oh," he said, "you're really crazy."

THE SHELTERING SKY
Paul Bowles, 1949
Chapter XIII, pg 99
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