History of love by Nicole Krauss
And if,when he tried a second time to replace her name with another ,
for a second time his hand froze,perhaps it was because he knew that
to remove her would be like erasing all the punctuation,and the vowels,
and ever adjective and noun.
Because without Alma,there have been no book.
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Being alone. Like that living , angels sometimes get tired of each other and want to be alone.
Because the houses they live in are crowded, and there;s nowhere to go,
the only an angel can do at such moments is shut his eyes and put his head down on his arms,
When an angel does this, the others understand that he is trying to fool himself into feeling alone,
and they tiptoe around him. To help things along, they might talk about him as if he weren't there.
If they happen to bump into him by accident, they whisper: "It wasn't me."
for a second time his hand froze,perhaps it was because he knew that
to remove her would be like erasing all the punctuation,and the vowels,
and ever adjective and noun.
Because without Alma,there have been no book.
----
Being alone. Like that living , angels sometimes get tired of each other and want to be alone.
Because the houses they live in are crowded, and there;s nowhere to go,
the only an angel can do at such moments is shut his eyes and put his head down on his arms,
When an angel does this, the others understand that he is trying to fool himself into feeling alone,
and they tiptoe around him. To help things along, they might talk about him as if he weren't there.
If they happen to bump into him by accident, they whisper: "It wasn't me."