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The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of mankind. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals how this fall from grace can be a very difficult thing indeed from which to recover. 'Nothomb potently distils from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory - that grow indistinct as childhood approaches.' New York Times 'Amélie Nothomb, like an urchin about to pick your pocket, has frighteningly clear eyes and a disarming voice with a wicked snap.' Luc Sante… (meer)
In the beginning was nothing, and this nothing had neither form nor substance - it was nothing other than what it was.
In den beginne was er niets. Dat niets was leeg noch vaag: het was zichzelf genoeg. En God zag dat het goed was. Voor niets ter wereld zou hij ook maar iets hebben geschapen. Het niets beviel hem. Sterker nog, het was zijn lust en zijn leven.
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They already had two children who were full-fledged members of the human race. Having a third who was a vegetable wasn't so bad. It even elicited tender feelings on their part.
Eating or not eating, drinking or not drinking, it was all the same. To be or not to be was not the question.
God's parents were of Belgain nationality, meaning that it, too, was Belgian. This may help explain not a few of the disasters that have occurred since biblical days; centuries ago, a priest from the Low Countries proved scientifically that Adam and Eve spoke Flemish.
Seeing involves choice. Whoever looks at something has decide to fix his attention on that one thing, to the exclusion of other things. That is why sight, the very essence of life, first and foremost constitutes a rejection. Therefore, to live means to reject. Anyone who looks at everything at once is as alive as a toilet bowl.
I knew myself, and I soon discovered that life was a vale of tears in which one was forced to eat pureed carrots with small bits of meat.
Kashima-san refused me; she denied me. She was the equivalent of the anti-Christ; she was the anti-me. I felt deep sorrow for her. How terrible it must have been for her not to adore me.
Because the truth seemed to be locked in the rectangular pages of books, I decided to learn to read them.
I had just been told what at some point everyone learns: that eventually we lose what we love. That which is given you will be taken back. That was how I formulated the theme of my childhood, of my adolescence, and of all the years that followed.
Had I asked anyone they might have explained the cycle of seasons to me. At the age of three you don't remember the year before, so you don't have any sense of the eternal return. Every new season seems irreversible. At the age of two, you don't notice these changes and you don't care. At four, you notice them but the memory of the year before takes the drama out of them. But at three, the anxiety you feels is overwhelming, because you see everything and understand nothing. There is no legal precedent to consult.
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the rest of mankind. Narrated by a child - from the age of two and a half up until her third birthday - this novel reveals how this fall from grace can be a very difficult thing indeed from which to recover. 'Nothomb potently distils from the state of infancy the intensity of beginnings, the precariousness, the trailed clouds of glory - that grow indistinct as childhood approaches.' New York Times 'Amélie Nothomb, like an urchin about to pick your pocket, has frighteningly clear eyes and a disarming voice with a wicked snap.' Luc Sante
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