Monday, August 16, 2004

 
"Love is expensive.../One must put furniture around it, or it goes" (225-226).

James Baldwin, Another Country (New York: Vintage International, 1993).

"The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived--nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died--through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question...was whether or not he had ever, really, been present at his life" (128).



posted by Open Mouth 8:53 PM