What to do, what to do
“Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.”
Aleksandar Hemon, “Blind Jozef Pronek & Dead Souls”, from the short story collection “The Question of Bruno” (Doubleday 2000). Cited from Lorin Stein’s review of Hemon’s new novel “Nowhere Man” in the New York Review of Books, May 15/2003.