Machel’s Reviews > The White Album > Status Update

'Horses caught on fire and were shot on the beach, birds exploded in the air. Houses did not explode but imploded, as in a nuclear strike.' -JD

That flying back across the Pacific I regretted only the toaster. -JD

'I open the windows and feel the air, eat gratefully, sleep well. I noticed a particular nature of a flower in a glass on the stair landing. I count my blessings.' -JD

'I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do. I wanted room for flowers, and reef fish, and people who may or may not be driving one another to murder but in any case are not impelled, by the demands of narrative convention, to say so out loud on the 8:45 a.m. Pan American to Honolulu.' -JD

"I had nothing but to walk into nowhere and the wide sunset space and star. Ten watercolors we're made from that star." Quoting Georgia O'Keeffe

It's exactly the type of book I need to be reading right now. If course, California is a major part of this book's theme.

'Music people never wanted ordinary drinks. They wanted sake, or champagne cocktails, or tequila neat.' ( The latter my favorite, too. )

"Music people never wanted ordinary drinks. They wanted sake or champagne cocktails, or tequila neat." (The latter is my favorite. Yay.)