Go Ask the Time

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:49:46 +1000

Originally published at Granta

“I began with a story, I will end with story-telling”
— John Berger

Once there was a young man who said to himself: this story about everybody having to die, that’s not for me. I’m going to find a place where nobody ever dies. And so he says goodbye to his parents and his family, and he sets off on a journey. And after several months, he meets an old man, with a beard down to his chest, trundling rocks in a wheelbarrow off a mountainside. And he says to the old man: Do you know that place where nobody ever dies?

John Berger on Class Letters

Go Ask the Time