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This will be a slow-goer. Even though I’m close to halfway through, not counting the back matter of this edition. The point of this book is to illustrate the commonalities, and sharp differences, the ancient Greeks had with Christianity over sexual ethics

Good if you’re curious about that old lovable rascal Ezra Pound. Laughlin in his youth has an unbecoming Zelig-like tendency to write like whoever he is under the tutelage of: Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, etc.

This book is very thought-provoking, aggressively off-beat and, one can only say, “heterodox” while being about homosexuality — countercultural, that’s the word I’m looking for. and also very filthy,

The text layout is interesting, a book designed to be a page turner but it’s some offbeat theory book that seems to be a plea for LGBTQ movements to put on the brakes

Speed-read this.

Burning through this. It’s fascinating and provocative.

“The Summer People” is immortal, so funny and bitter.

Sometimes spotting JM’s intricate rhymes can be distracting from the poem itself. But then when he doesn’t rhyme, you miss it.

Now I’m just speeding through to the end. I’m not picking up all Augustine is putting down. It’s all metaphysical and philosophical and over my head, for the most part.

Raymond Carver is, no doubt, a master. But with this second book of his that I’ve read I am starting to sense a…shapelessness to the endings of his stories. Nothing bad, at least not as bad as some of his imitators. Or something. Who am I, and what do I know. Zippo.

I think the strictly biographical sections are done now, with the death of his mother Monica: totally wrenching and moving and sad. And yet it is clear that she planted the seeds for his ultimate Christian conversion. Now begins what I’m told are the four sections on theology. I may take a break and pause here.