Childish things

9/14/2007 10:10:00 AM

I spent years wondering why the writings of Marguerite Duras were so haunting in any language.
Then I saw a film that was based on her life. It began with this:

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Yes, the Bible. Should have known.