Clark Flashcards
Adjectives
- Nostalgic
- Innovative/Creative
- Sleepwalker
- Conformist
- Hopeful/Optimistic
- Regretful
“Corporate..
“Corporate Cliches”
“corporate respectability”
His work - Pre the collapse
“not specifically unhappy but when had he last found real joy in his work”
Objects he’d collected over the years…
Phones… radio… electric toaster… taken-for-granted miracles that had persisted all around them
He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light…
he main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one…the sheer volume of regret
Robert was a curator…
if [he] were here, he’d probably fill the shelves with artefacts and start an impromptu museum
Clark was careful to shave every three days.”
“The haircut made him feel like himself again.” p249 after years of “corporate respectability”
“the main difference..
between 21-51 was the sheer volume of regret” - Mandel alludes that in a modern society, as we age we start to lose true value of what we want to do and rather start to conform to societal expectations.
“how lucky he’d been…
to have seen one world end and another begin” - he is able to have optimistic view of the past as he now has found true purpose which would not have been possible without the impacts of the collapse
“In his present mind…
all objects were beautiful”
“[Clark]..
took his role as curator seriously”
