nicole’s Reviews > Slouching Towards Bethlehem > Status Update

"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."

"Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it i wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? (...) It's easy to decieve oneself on all these scores. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself."

"Steve is troubled by a lot of things. He is twenty-three, was raised in Virginia, and has the idea that California is the beginning of the end."