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I'm on the second page and I want to punch the author in the face

WOW we are ill-constructed heaps of trash

I'm gonna be talking about this book constantly for the next few months! Hope everybody's ready!

She describes people like Djuna Barnes would. I'm in love!

stopped at The Nose

The prologue alone is terribly charming!

"What is Greek in him does not rub off with his ceaseless voyaging. He does not leave little particles of himself distributed all over the lot, as the American does, for example. When the Greek leaves a place he leaves a hole. The American leaves behind him a litter of junk—shoe laces, collar buttons, razor blades, petroleum tins, vaseline jars and so on."

"Size is not created by mileage always. In a way which it is beyond the comprehension of my fellow countrymen to grasp Greece is infinitely larger than the United States. Greece could swallow both the United States and Europe."

"Cynical-minded people will say that it
is because Greece is a small country, because they are eager
to have visitors, and so on. I don’t believe it. I have been ina
few small countries which left quite the opposite impression
upon me. And as I said once before, Greece is not a small
country—it is impressively vast. No country I have visited
has given me such a sense of grandeur."

"One would have to be a toad, a Snail, or a slug not to be affected by this radiance which emanates from the human heart as well as
from the heavens. Wherever you go in Greece the people open up like flowers."

"I shall remember his sister Jeanne too, and other Greek women whom I met, because of their queenliness. It is a quality we scarcely ever meet with in the modern woman. Like the warm friendliness of the men this quality which all Greek women share to a greater or less degree is the counterpart, or shall I say the corresponding human virtue, which goes with the supernal light."

Feeling in my soul the plight of the child at night whose mother has the audacity to have social plans.