Machel’s Reviews > Less Is Lost > Status Update

"What do we want from the past, anyway? For it to trifle with us no longer? For it to cease its surprises, its stirrings, its stings, for it to be fixed forever--for it to die? But the past is like those jellyfish that, when harmed, coil themselves and revert to immature blobs from which they begin new lives and become, in simple terms, immortal. What can we do but look away from such painful miracles?" -ASG

But Arthur LESS knows this one statement is true: They will not see each other again.- ASG

The rest is sun and hard earth. - ASG

Able through his talents to swindle love and perhaps even death...
For are we not that fraction of old magic that remains? -ASG

Hilarious and lovely, Arthur LESS is as memorable as Holly Golightly was in BAT. I love Less's adventures, dry personality & his penchant for falling into outrageous circumstances that bring you to laughter with just a dash of sorrow. Less just woke up naked, wrapped in cowhide w/ a 10 hour time deficiency in his memory. It's so great to read ASG again. My third book this yr of his to read.

My grandmother was a southern Baptist, -ASG
LESS is LOST

The seal (or selkie?) vanishes into the water and Less is left alone.-ASG

I understood happiness is within our grasp if we reach for it. And so I traveled the world to win him back. - ASG