Daily Dose

From Paradise of the Blind, A Novel, by Duong Thu Huong, translated by Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson

BACKWARDNESS

"Everywhere, an indescribable backwardness hung in the air, immaterial yet terrifyingly present: It would be like this for eternity.  This backwardness seeped into the stillness here, like the brackish waters of the past: cold, stubborn, a sluggish, liquid sweetness escaping all control, ready at any moment to drown those unable to rise to its surface."

From Chapter Eight