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Aaron
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"... Decide the impulsive way he decided. This was the tissue that had manufactured his set of endless worries and sustained for more than eight decades his stubborn self-discipline, the source of everything that had so frustrated me as good adolescent son, the thing that had ruled our fates back when he was all-powerful and determining our purpose. And now it was being compressed and displaced and destroyed..."
— Apr 19, 2023 02:59AM
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Aaron
is on page 164 of 240
As his father is being apprised of the options to operate on his brain tumor:
"It was a lot to tell an old man whose strength, that evening, you could have measured in teaspoons."
Strength measured in teaspoons. Wow
— Apr 20, 2023 04:10AM
"It was a lot to tell an old man whose strength, that evening, you could have measured in teaspoons."
Strength measured in teaspoons. Wow
Aaron
is on page 158 of 240
"This guy is human, I thought, in the worst sense of the word "
— Apr 20, 2023 04:00AM
Aaron
is on page 16 of 240
"Alone, when I felt like crying, I cried and I never felt more like it than when I removed from the envelope the series of pictures of his brain--and not because I could really identify the tumor invading the brain but simply because it was his brain, my father's brain, what prompted him to think the blunt way he thought, speak the empathic way he spoke, reason the emotional way he reasoned..."
— Apr 19, 2023 02:56AM
