Aidan ONeil’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me tgat evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue is immortal. Vice has always a new fresg young face while virtue is cenerable as nothing else in the world

I know why I’m going — and tom, i know where im going and i am content

“was she very beautiful, samuel?… to you she was because you buily her. I dont think you ever saw her— only your own creation.”

I am confused, here is a man who is meek and mild; while once a protagonist who avoided war, he has now shrunk to be a broke man.

Lee…what to say about Lee…

and Liza and Samuel… wow!

violence, men, and war; a never ending conflict