The scourge of inflation

Money dissolves while you’re sleeping, it flies away while you’re changing your shoes (coming apart, with wooden heels) to run to the market for the second time : you never stop moving, but you’re always late. Life becomes mathematics, addition, multiplication a mad whirl of figures and numbers, a vortex that snatches the last of your possessions into its black insatiable vacuum.

Stefan Zweig , The Post-Office Girl

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