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Dr. Narin said that things have a memory. “Things question each other, communicate with each other, whisper to each other, and create a secret harmony among themselves that brings into existence the music we call the world.”

From the novel „The New Life“:

There was an odd wish on my mind. I wanted to take a close look at the objects I'd seen in his house when my father and I had last paid him a visit. The canaries in the cage, the barometer on the wall, the meticulously framed pictures of railroad trains, the breakfront in which cordial sets, miniature railway cars, a silver candy dish, a conductor's punch, the railroad service medals were placed in one half of the showcase and maybe forty or fifty books in the other half, the unused samovar standing on top of it, the playing cards on the table ... Through the half-open curtains, I could see the light emanating from the TV but not the set itself.