Posted AT 5:05 AM EDT on 25/07/07
A word with the past, a look to the future
This story begins with a young woman collapsing in a Kinko's in Los Angeles, the telephoned news of a death exploding in her mind as people go on asking for 15 copies in black and white. Or much earlier, as a young girl asks her father: "Is that a real poem, or did you make it up?"
This story ends with a book, and a sound of startled laughter from Metric singer Emily Haines, as she realizes that her father, Paul, has escaped her in spite of everything.
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