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Really liking how the stories are broken into multiple short scenes. Really skillful manipulation of time and a wry storyteller.

"She singled out from their number an old salt , whose bare arms and feet and exposed breast were covered with as many inscriptions in india ink as the lid of an Egyptian sarcophagus."

"Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire."

"It was a dark world, peopled with ghosts, that enclosed him, seeking to hold him back at all costs, to prevent him from going elsewhere, from discovering another life."

Delightful

Harrowing

"So it was that the operation for the final solution of the Jewish question in Serbia was, in fact, put into practice by a former hotelier and a former tour guide."

There's a lot more warmth here than I expected. Not sweet, but not mean either.

Some good punk rock fun that documents two scene about a dozen years apart: DC in the early '80s and Seattle in the early '90s.

So much yearning...

Powerful finish. I'm all verklempt.

Enjoying the third installation of Mohr's "Mission Trilogy."

Reading this book right before going to be results in some crazy, crazy dreams.