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on 12/21, the Winter Solstice, this felt apt: "Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against the fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death. Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light."

some really beautiful passages in this book... "She went directly to the breakwater and stood there watching the waves as they dashed themselves to pieces. Like her son, she too went to take counsel with the sea whenever she had something to think about."

slow going

oh beautiful book about grief and food and love!!!

I am going to finish this book

Augie March as a character is so subtle and masterful. If Henderson was like an unavoidable blow to the head Augie is not that

read this for the first time like forever ago when I was probably 12 or 13. now I'm reading it again and understanding a lot more about it because I'm older and wiser and I watched Scott Pilgrim

So I tell you that you better do for yourself, first, what the world will do anyway for you without kindness.

!! back to Bellow !!