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A review by sydn3y3
Stoner by John Williams
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
simple but so lovely to read!!!! the portrait of an average man’s life, and isn’t it so beautiful - life.
“sometimes, with you, i feel like the slut of the world, the eager, faithful slut of the world.” !!!! so good
“it occurred to him… that he ought to be beyond the force of such passion, of such love. But he was not beyond it, he knew, and would never be… He had, in odd ways, given it to every moment of his life, and had perhaps given it most fully when he was unaware of his giving. It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the flesh; rather, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, it’s specific substance. To a women or to a poem, it said simply: Look, I am alive!”
“sometimes, with you, i feel like the slut of the world, the eager, faithful slut of the world.” !!!! so good
“it occurred to him… that he ought to be beyond the force of such passion, of such love. But he was not beyond it, he knew, and would never be… He had, in odd ways, given it to every moment of his life, and had perhaps given it most fully when he was unaware of his giving. It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the flesh; rather, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, it’s specific substance. To a women or to a poem, it said simply: Look, I am alive!”