Amélie is investigating my #bookmail, the first arrival of the Maxwell books I ordered thanks to the NYT article. @Graywacke
pickAt 1st I found this book awkward & overwritten, but after the 2 friends meet, the author finds his voice & I was captivated by it's awkward silences. What was once overwrought becomes lyrical with a restrained beauty. Written in mid-20th century, there is a deeply repressed passion that dissolves into ellipses, and then often the friendship erupts with a frightening brutality. It is symbolic of the flailing of truths uttered in a dishonest world.
Wow! A Friday night at home! No family! No visitors! I mean WOW! What ever shall I do?
"But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of journey."
"To know the world's injustice requires only a small amount of experience. To accept it without bitterness or envy you need almost the sum total of human wisdom..."
The Folded Leaf | 
