It's November 18 for the 1,403rd time
An excerpt from On the Calculation of Volume
In the Danish novelist Solvej Balle’s seven-part series, On the Calculation of Volume, Tara Selter is stuck in a time loop: for her, it’s November 18 again and again and again and again. Today, it’s November 18 for the rest of us, too, so we’re sharing our Issue Fifteen excerpt from Book III, which is out now in English from New Directions.
Day #1144, #1167, #1403 | Fiction
SOLVEJ BALLE
I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday. Well, actually, we met the day before, but we didn’t speak until yesterday. Yesterday he acquired a name. His name is Henry Dale, and I don’t need to tell him that time has ground to a halt. He already knows.
