From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term ""notations,"" bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging."" A mosaical portrait of an old body's mind determined to do its exercises and not lose a step-and fascinating for that."" - Kirkus Reviews | The Secret Heart of the Clock by Elias Canetti, Paperback | Indigo Chapters