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"Was I the son to curse the crack through which another life was passed into this world of miseries and sorrow?"
— Jan 06, 2013 07:15PM
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What a fantastic book. Gathering my thoughts for a review - and am very interested to see Proustitute and Kris's thoughts when they finish.
— Jan 07, 2013 12:14PM
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"Violence and mishap, these are the precedent creators of our histories as humankind; in the beginning was not the word, but the rape, and from the rape descended slaveries and holocausts and myths we tell ourselves to transcend them."
— Jan 07, 2013 06:01AM
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The narrative dealing with the dog Hope is both beautifully written and at times hilarious
— Jan 07, 2013 03:35AM
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Jan 06, 2013 07:33PM
So glad you're reading this too, Brian.
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It's lovely - How far along are you?
Just about 1/4 of the way through. It was a crazy weekend, so I didn't have as much time to devote to reading as I would have liked, and I also want to savor the prose.
Nearly every sentence has the heft of painstaking, artisanal mastery. "At our best, the boy and I these past few weeks have been reactive agents in a mother's midnight stab at family alchemy." How long did he chisel away at that chestnut?
