Status Updates From The Dig

“I put my hands together, just as I had done as a child, hoping that I might feel once again the same certainties, the same calm surety, that I had felt then.”

Beautiful. Strong, amusing characters and artistic language. A retreat for your brain

This was a delightful read. I love the movie and luckily forgot a lot of the details so there were no huge differences. About to rewatch the movie and that will likely change my mind lol. Love this story!

“There’s something about the darkness that invites confidences, of course, or draws them forth without one realizing.”

“Sometimes I feel that the dead are more alive than the living, and that this life is just a preparation for another one, long gone by.”

He’s a better person than I am. I would have been utterly furious.

“As in life, it was the ones who were keenest to make themselves heard who invariably had the least to say.”

“None the less, there’s something peculiarly comforting in reading about events that have already happened. This as opposed to those that seem to hang, half-formed, above one’s head.”

Couldn’t agree more 🤓

Loved the movie, so have to read the book. If I could go back in time I might have gone in to archaeology. Onward!