#the good story

The claim that repression cannot succeed – and consequently that we are not free to create our own past – seems to me to rest finally on faith in the justice of the universe. What we gain in repressing what we do not want to remember we have to pay for via the subterranean poisoning of other aspects of our life. But there seems to be all too much evidence that such faith is unfounded.

– Coetzee, The Good Story