Maddie Saggie’s Reviews > A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man > Status Update

It’s like watching two flames; one the love of his faith, and the other the birth of his passion for writing. And while you watch the latter grow, the first is being extinguished. Everyone when growing up must shed the “religion”—whether it be a secular religion or art, community, etc—of their childhood and grow into their own “religion” and human. And this book (so far) displays the complexity of that

“He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.”

Never have I read a book written like this. Each sentence written in such intricate.

I have a feeling this may be my fav book