Pausing on the threshold, he looked in, conscious not so much of the few familiar sticks of furniture - the trucklebed, the worn strip of Brussels carpet, the chipped blue-banded ewer and basin, the framed illuminated texts on the walls - as of a perfect hive of abhorrent memories. That high cupboard in the corner, from which certain bodiless shapes had been wont to issue and stoop at him cowering out of his dreams; the crab-patterned paper that came alive as you stared; the window cold with menacing stars; the mouseholes, the rusty grate - trumpet of every wind that blows - these objects at once lustily shouted at him in their own original tongues.(" Out Of The Deep") .Anonymous
About This Quote
The quote above is from the book "Out Of The Deep" by Irvine Welsh. It's a novel about one man's struggle with his mother's death, his sexual abuse in childhood, and the years he spent in a mental hospital. There are some very dark moments in this novel that are written with great sensitivity. This quote refers to when the main character assaults two of his patients in order to free himself of their "abhorrent memories." He's trying to escape the memory of his mother's death.
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