Then the position is reversed, and you are the parent, and so you occupy both roles in your life. A person, the persona, is made up of many different views and experiences of that person's life. It is not only your experience, it is also how others experience you. This comes back to the questions of ambiguity in our lives. So there is this strange kind of bond, and their bond is a sort of ancillary to their strained relationship with Duncan.
Novels become novels within novels.
You seem to have moved from the public domain of apartheid to the private dominion of alienation. The climate of violence seems to seep through, like some kind of stain, so that it forms the connection of their lives. What I have been doing is making a documentary film. And it's the clumsiest business in the world. I am used to having just my piece of paper, but with film everything is subject to everybody.