Ich hab das Buch nicht gelesen und den Ausschnitt nur kopiert, aber es kommt mir klug vor:
"Billions of binaries, one or zero: simple as that. Like a game of Twenty Questions, an endless series of deductions performed to break down the world into its smallest parts. Are you Samson Greene, one or zero? Is this your wife, one or zero? Do you love her? One or zero. We repeat the question: Do you love her, one or zero? The subject appears to be having difficulty answering. Is this a difficult question, one or zero? Until the world is reduced to math and all the equations equal zero, and in the tremendous silence of that final moment they ask in a trembling voice, the only ones left: Does the world exist? One or zero. And the answer comes back, though there is no one left anymore to hear it, the digits on the clock rolling back to start again with nothing. (p. 137)
Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss "
Das ist nicht Nicole Krauss, sondern Stephen Malkmus.
