From John Steinbeck: “I guess there are never enough books.”
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Quote of the day 06/27/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Quote of the day 12/19/23
From Carl Sagan: “Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
Quote of the day 11/12/23
From Ralph Waldo Emerson: “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
Quote of the day 09/18/23
From Douglas Adams: “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Blood Meridian
I was speaking to my brother recently about the great works of humanity. I consider Blood Meridian to be among them. It seems to me to exist outside of time. The intro has been echoing in my mind since I read it a few years ago. In honor of Cormac McCarthy, I include it here.Continue reading “Blood Meridian”