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The mind was a blackboard. Booze was the eraser.
This book contains a lot of reflections on what it is like to have the disease of alcoholism including how it is passed down through the family and effects families and children. Some of the references are overt - like in this quote I selected - and some are slightly more metaphorical as seen in the family of protagonists and their desperate search for the life substance that keeps them young and vital. You will get it all if you have ever had any experience with addiction. Thankfully The Solution to The Problem is also a major character in the book and I look forward to seeing how it plays out in this novel.
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
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“Sometimes I say to a poem,
"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."
And the poem will often
Respond
By climbing onto a barroom table:
Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.”
― The Gift
"I don't have the strength
To wring out another drop
Of the sun."
And the poem will often
Respond
By climbing onto a barroom table:
Then lifts its skirt, winks,
Causing the whole sky to
Fall.”
― The Gift
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