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North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther:
"I wanted to love this book. The opening pages drop you into the dying days of the whaling era with cold wind, salt air, and the quiet weight of a vanishing world. For a moment, it feels like you are about to be carried somewhere vast and haunting. In"
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| I went into North Sun really wanting to like it. A small press book nominated for the National Book Award that is ostensibly about men on a whaling ship? Hell yeah, I'm in. And the book gets off to a good start, establishing some of our primary chara ...more | |
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| ""[John] Scalish found his own, quieter exit. A bad heart in a hospital bed. Like men I've known, like men you might have known. Men who worked mundane jobs for so many years that they'd lost track of time altogether. I am not sure what it is that ..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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“We wake up every morning thinking that the day we're about to live is going to be one kind of way. Like the days before it. One to shuffle in with all the rest. When we look back at our lives and all the things that we've done, there's a sad realization hat most days are entirely wiped from our memories. We know those days must have happened or else we wouldn't be where we are, but the substance of them is gone. Of a lifetime of conversations, only the sentiments remain. Specificity eroded down to a nub of ambiguity. On inspection, whole years are nothing but a vague sense built out of the moments that lasted. The moments that made a deeper imprint. Occasionally, the truly spectacular, but more often, the deeply embarrassing. The tragic. Then without realizing we invent material to fill the gaps. Words never said and actions never taken to add flourish or valor or meaning where likely there was none. Even my two years working at Saladas. Most of it is gone. Washed away by the repetition of it all.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
“No one here ever asks what I plan to do with my life. They only ever ask what I plan to do tonight.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
“We wake up every morning thinking that the day we're about to live is going to be one kind of way. Like the days before it. One to shuffle in with all the rest. When we look back at our lives and all the things that we've done, there's a sad realization hat most days are entirely wiped from our memories. We know those days must have happened or else we wouldn't be where we are, but the substance of them is gone. Of a lifetime of conversations, only the sentiments remain. Specificity eroded down to a nub of ambiguity. On inspection, whole years are nothing but a vague sense built out of the moments that lasted. The moments that made a deeper imprint. Occasionally, the truly spectacular, but more often, the deeply embarrassing. The tragic. Then without realizing we invent material to fill the gaps. Words never said and actions never taken to add flourish or valor or meaning where likely there was none. Even my two years working at Saladas. Most of it is gone. Washed away by the repetition of it all.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
“No one here ever asks what I plan to do with my life. They only ever ask what I plan to do tonight.”
― Where When It Rains
― Where When It Rains
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