When Fabio Gerentlas reached the venerable age of fifty-six he looked back on his life with little satisfaction. He had done what people had expected, he told himself. But inside he felt he had let himself down. He had not achieved anything that he himself would accept as worthwhile.
And so in his fifty-seventh year he resolved to change everything. He resigned from his job as an administrator in the Government Actuary’s Department advising his superiors on project and enterprise risk, divorced his unsuspecting wife and bought a one-way ticket to New Caledonia. Here in Nouméa he set up household with a kanak teacher who taught French officials how speak Drehu. As Fabio's creative skills were primarily literary (he had little artistic or musical ability), he decided that he should become a diarist - but life was simple and uneventful, so he devised instead a fictional record of extraordinary complexity. And the main motif was time.
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