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"l'Église dispose de la joie, de toute la part de la joie réservée à ce triste monde. Ce que vous avez fait contre elle, vous avez fait contre la joie." (24)

"Le contraire d'un peuple chrétien, c'est un peuple triste, un peuple vieux. (...) D'où vient que le temps de notre petite enfance nous paraît si doux, si rayonnant (...) L'enfance et l'extrême vieillesse devraient être les deux grandes épreuves de l'homme. Mais c'est du sentiment de sa propre impuissance que l'enfant tire humblement le principe même de sa joie." (22-23)

"Le bon Dieu n'a pas écrit que nous étions le miel de la terre, mon garçon, mais le sel. Or, notre pauvre monde ressemble au vieux père Job sur son fumier, plein de plaies et d'ulcères. Du sel sur une peau à vif, ça brûle. Mais ça empêche aussi de pourrir." (16)

Because God had chosen America as the construction site of the earthly paradise, America's cause was always just and nothing was ever America's fault [ ] whereas corrupt foreigners commit crimes against humanity, Americans cleanse the world of its impurities. We do so because we have a natural aptitude for the work and because without our humanitarian intervention [ ] the whole scheme of creation might come loose [ ]

"40 years ago in the United States the word 'public' served as a synonym for selfless dedication to the common good and the word 'private' carried with it the suggestion of selfish greed. Two generations of sustained economic prosperity have reversed the political usages of these words. 'Public' connotes waste, poverty, incompetence and fraud; 'private' connotes honesty, intelligence, efficiency, and noble purpose."

Lapham writing in Feb 2001 on the Bush-Gore voting count debacle in Florida : "why were [Republicans] always enraged? They controlled almost all of the political machinery in Florida [...] and yet they imagined themselves unfairly persecuted by a jealous god and wicked trolls. What was it to which they believed themselves entitled, and how did they arrive at the certain knowledge of their own certain virtue?"

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Kind of boring so far, I find the plot a little random. But I'll keep going and see if it gets better.

Remembered I have free will and can just read stuff that's been dormant on my bookshelf for ages

P 132/427
Not terribly invested in this plot
But I'm also once again reading too many books at once

It's okay

I'm obsessed with this book. Simply fantastic. Can't stop reading. And I'm not one to read autobiographies...

In the middle of Chapter 10: Strider