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"The problems [in literary publishing] are still the same: the bottom-line hucksters grab for more power and today's literary editors carry on in spite of eternal difficulties. I suggested then, and repeat now, that the value we place on our brief lives on this planet is reflected in the way we treat our literature and the authors and editors of that literature"---Bill Henderson (ix).

I love this book so much.

Such a good book, so emotionally trying.

"My reading, my research is moth-like. Impassioned, fluttery, doomed." (Homebody 9)

[PRIOR] ...This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all, and the dead will be commemorated and will struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.

...Pick any era in history.
What is really beautiful about that era?
The way the rich lived?
No.
The way the poor lived?
No.
The dreams of the Left
are always beautiful.
The imagining of a better world
the damnation of the present one.
This faith,
this luminescent anger,
these alone
are worthy of being called human.
These are the Beautiful
that an age produces.

Scene 11 (Pgs 60-62)
"Oranges"

I love this scene so much.

The Red Baby, Five Million People, People are Pigs, Red Fire.

The ground is shaking.