The Past & the Future
In fact, that was what I was going to do, live, the future, the past today. I, poor Christ, a young southern migrant worker, a nursing student in a mental hospital in north London, was going to live what I know to be my past today. With a book, I thought that that map of knowledge could help me discover the future in that time that I rediscover today having lived, after more than half a century, in the manner of Proust. I hoped to understand not only what humanity's intentions were, as the ambitious Naomi proposed, but what future destiny would assign me to live.
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