Nanci’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

“ Yes I do. Yes I do. It is easy out of laziness out of weakness to throw ones selves into the lap of deity, saying I couldn’t help it. The way was set, but think of the glory of the choice that makes man a man.”

I enjoy hearing, about adams twin sons as they grow up,

(Samuel and lee are currently visiting) and adam the dad seems more confident.

Challenging chapter

“ and isn’t it strange that three grown men here in a century so many thousands of years away to discuss this crime as though it happened in King city yesterday and hadn’t come up for trial”
Discussion between adam samuel and lee

“ well every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue, we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.”

“ And you have left them fatherless” samuel to adam

“ the sheriff was staring at a picture of three cherubim- just heads, curly haired, lipid eyed with wings about the size of pigeons wings, growing out of where their neck would be”