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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER FIVE<br />

prolazili ljudi ilene. putnici. putovali<br />

i sastajali se bra~ni parovi i<br />

ljubavnici. Roditelji su tu sa~ekivali<br />

decu iz !kole. 2ene su izlazile pred<br />

voz. sa suncobranom u ruci. i ki!obranom<br />

u ruci. jer u Kornvalu ima mno~o ki!e.<br />

2iveo jet tu. svakako. i neki ~aravi<br />

lola~. sa lenom i decom. Kraj kazana iz<br />

koje~ izbija plamen. kao iz pakla. Na tu<br />

stanicu se vra6alo i posle po~reba i<br />

ven~anja. - a odatle. svakako. polazilo i<br />

na bra~no putovanje?<br />

Sad'? Praznina.<br />

Nikakvo~ tra~a. - baA nikakvo~. -<br />

od sve~a<br />

to~a.<br />

Pro!lo je (91).<br />

Is it not deceptive. miserable.<br />

incomprehensible. even to consider that<br />

all this was reallv new one hundred vears<br />

a~o. and as somethin~ new and beautiful<br />

it existed? Now. he looks at it with<br />

disbelief. and nevertheless knows that<br />

here passed men and women. travellers.<br />

married couples and lovers journeved and<br />

met. Parents waited for their children<br />

from school here. Women went out in<br />

front of the train. holdin~ a parasol.<br />

and an umbrella. since there is a lot of<br />

rain in Cornwall. A sootv fireman lived<br />

here too with his wife and children.· BV<br />

a boiler from which flames spun •.. as from<br />

Hell. Thev returned to the station both<br />

after funerals and weddin~s - and from<br />

there. thev of course went on honevmoon'?<br />

Now? Emptiness.<br />

No trace. none at all. of all<br />

that.<br />

It has passed.<br />

There are two pasts fOr Rjepnin. the irrecoverable past<br />

and the past as experienced in memorv. both of which are<br />

preferable to the present. When in ~ondon he feels that<br />

the present is bevond his control. that he has no<br />

identitv.<br />

There onlv remains the possibilitv of<br />

enterina into the illusion that he can return to what he<br />

once was.<br />

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