When we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
The Book of Mirrors“When we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.” This epigraph, attributed to Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending, opens Part Two under the name John Keller. Its decisive significance is the way it makes the act of imagining other people’s pasts a lens for the section that follows.
