McEwan, Ian (b. 1948)

Amsterdam

New York

Double Day

1998

"The thought scrolled round and round in his mind--it went well, it went well."

When the last person had left his office, Vernon closed the door and dispelled the fug by pushing the windows open wide to the damp March air. He had five minutes before his next meeting and he needed to think. He told Jen over the intercom that he was not to be disturbed. The thought scrolled round and round in his mind--it went well, it went well. But there was something, something important, some new information he had been about to respond to, then he had been diverted, and then he had forgotten, it had flashed away from him in a swarm of other similar items. It was a remark, a snippet that had surprised him at the time. He should have spoken up right then.
(p. 117)

Writing::Scroll

Reading

Ian McEwan, Amsterdam (New York: Anchor Books, 1999).

05/14/2011