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"

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Age of Innocence, Chapter 22

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.
Edtih Wharton, The Age of Innocence

This is lovely, I had written in the margin. Newland's marriage to May does not turn away his love for Ellen. Instead it is intensified--the world without Ellen is "empty" to Newland, and only if he could just see the patch of dirt Ellen's feet have pressed, that is enough to make him whole. 

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