Discussion - Week Three - Middle C - Chapter 21 - 32

[Jim]

This discussion covers Chapter 21 – 32, pg. 198 – 299




To avoid spoilers, please limit comments to page 1 - 299

[Nicole]

sentence of the day:
He began to realize that his friends would see him as they saw a Christmas package, decorated to entice but wrapped to conceal.

[Nicole]

I'm also enjoying the back and forth between the present and the past. I think for me the most striking contrast is between a younger Joseph who, while certainly awkward, is still making tentative attempts to connect to other people, and an older Joseph who has perfected his strategies for keeping other people at a distance.

[Matthew]

Wow things have gotten especially good. Also a sentence or two I love:

"There was a poet who had written about a word he liked-"presentiment"- the author's name would not come to his tongue-such an annoyance, a sign he was flustered-and the poet had said the word referred to the way a lengthening shadow signaled the setting sun. It seemed a gloom-soaked poem, a gloom-soaked word.