What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.
Kazuo IshiguroMemory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Kazuo IshiguroThe problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.
Kazuo IshiguroI cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
Kazuo IshiguroIt didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.
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