The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Chapter Eight

There are trails to walk in the woods and rules that say if you pass someone during the day you may simply drop your gaze to the path as a signal you are thinking seriously about your work and do not wish to engage in conversation.
--Ann Patchett's Truth and Beauty

I like this rule. I don't think it's rude because I would like to walk on those trails and see what it feels like to drop my gaze when I meet someone. I can only be jealous of Lucy and Ann whom I imagine to have walked those trails countless times and dropped gazes at many other writers at Yaddo. 
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