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"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended." In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love and imagination, as well as his unmatched lyric style. In eight carefully connected stories that are joined by introspective interludes on related subjects, the author pursues the notion, through the lives of a couple seen by different narrators, that "those who like unhappy ends can have them, and those who don't will have to look for them."
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1. "The impossible object of the title, "the triangle that can exist in two dimension but not in three," is the symbol that resonates throughout the book: that it's impossible to have happiness, have a good life, unless one realizes the impossibility of attaining it. This central tenet is what makes this a "life changing book." Mosley is a guru of sorts, a writer who can pose the questions that force you to reexamine the possibilities for life and fiction. This is my all-time favorite Dalkey book (well, one of my five), and one that I'm sure will be recommended from one reader to the next a hundred years from now.
