Eternal Life? The American Eliot had not thought he believed in it, and until this moment, in this desolate and haunted place, he had not thought he needed to believe in it. But what if one was accountable for one’s actions, and not only in this life? What if there was a series of realms through which one had to progress, watched and tested all the time? What if he had lived before and committed unspeakable deeds for which he would have to pay? What if — and the thought would not go away — what if he was the one who had cursed Akhenaten and was himself locked, like him, in the savagery of that curse forever. Mary had said a curse binds him who is cursed and him who curses. He suddenly remembered what had happened when he was alone on that ridge watching Jack run towards Emma. He had felt u
