Alismcg’s Reviews > Novels 1956–1964: Seize the Day / Henderson the Rain King / Herzog > Status Update

"Seize the Day" 5⭐

"Henderson..." 4⭐
Much written might well have not been and still, this reader would've felt no loss. But that one good quote served to pull it all together. I'm grateful that I stuck with it.

"I knew that this place was of old. Meaning, I had sensed from the first that I might find things here which were of old, which I saw when I was still innocent and have longed for ever since, for all of my life—and without which I could not make it."
"Henderson..."

"And in the dark tunnel, in the haste, heat and darkness which disfigure and make freaks and fragments of nose and eyes and teeth, all of a sudden, unsought, a general love for all these imperfect and lurid-looking people burst out in Wilhelm's breast. He loved them. One and all, he passionately loved them. ... he began to say, 'Oh my brothers—my brothers and my sisters,' blessing them all as well as himself. "