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And if there were two things Watt loathed, one was the earth, and the other was the sky.

I don't want to hear it, bub. It's for work/school.

"There was a time when, looking at the snow falling, I saw white thread worms dropping out of the sick belly of childhood."

I absolutely literally gasped at that, the sudden period coming like a punch in the throat. I don't know that I've read a sentence that stark and pristine in a long time.

ENCORE!

Sharing in my son's recommendation

Rereading in preparation to share with my son for his 13th birthday

In Theroux, book strokes you! Purrrrrrrr...

"If you are not coming to put into question everything you do, I don't see why you're here."

Little Shoes homework for the Semenary

LET'S DO THIS!

My son asked me to read this. I asked him to read The Communist Manifesto. A deal was struck. I've half a mind to post each of his reviews instead of mine.

Oh, the prescience... or the snarly temporality of a good eye put in good prose: "...a man one could indeed simply laugh at, we're there no sinister side to his right-winged wrongheadedness and his rape of Mother English."