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..."It must have cost a lot."
"Nobel Prize money bought it. Two things that money bought: a cottage on Cape Cod and that monument."
"Dynamite money", I marvelled, thinking of the violence of dynamite and the absolute repose of a tombstone and a summer home.
"What?"
"Nobel invented dynamite."
"Well, I guess it takes all kinds..."

This is the second time I heard a similar quote... Cough, Oppen... Cough... heimer.

Hell, I was thinking about reading a Pynchon novel—probably trying out Inherent Vice—and this fell into my hands.

My thoughts about Vronsky are getting more irritable...

My thoughts about Vronsky are getting more irritable...

"Ten brought with it the gravity of having existed for an entire decade, the emblematic jump to double figures. I could never be a single, solid digit again. In the final months of being nine, ten seemed to represent the death of childhood." That's bleak

I backtracked my progress as I want to get more out of this book. It's written beautifully, but for the life of me, I couldn't connect with the character. I still can't, but at least I can appreciate the hurt voice of our narrator, Frankie.