Sebastian Barry. Tablets of fate (№ 433635)

It’s strange, this is what came to my mind: a person who doesn’t nurture his stories while he lives, so that they will survive him later, will most likely be lost not only for the whole story, but also for the family to whom he could pass them on. Of course, such is the fate of the majority, when whole lives - even the most striking and remarkable - shrink to the gloomy blackened inscriptions on a dried family tree: half a date and an interrogative dangling nearby