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A review by maggieshield17
Dancing After Hours: Stories by Andre Dubus
5.0
“Wives are good. I’d like a wife. I’m two baseball seasons from forty.”
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“I need to think, Nick. All i’ve been doing is feeling.”
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“I’ll go to confession today.”
“Do you think you need to?”
“Yes.”
“To be forgiven?”
“No. I’m always being forgiven. But i’ll get strength from it. We do it face to face now. I’ll just go switch with the priest and tell him... I’ll say I placed myself in the occasion of sin.”
“Some people would just say you were being good.”
“If I take all the credit for getting out of it, I have to take all the blame for getting into it, too. That’s too simple, and too unbearable. My job is to try, and to be vigilant, and to keep hoping. I need my jacket, and some water.”
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notes to self: *sin as reflection of relation to self more than relation to others, *importance yet unimportance of the physical, *lives very physically but starts to associate w deeper spiritual realities, *physical as outside of oneself ? phaedrus as heck
*Jesus in the desert *logic and emotion /line between
St Francis in relation to body: type of vibes
best stories: “falling in love,” “the timing of sin,”
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“I need to think, Nick. All i’ve been doing is feeling.”
-
“I’ll go to confession today.”
“Do you think you need to?”
“Yes.”
“To be forgiven?”
“No. I’m always being forgiven. But i’ll get strength from it. We do it face to face now. I’ll just go switch with the priest and tell him... I’ll say I placed myself in the occasion of sin.”
“Some people would just say you were being good.”
“If I take all the credit for getting out of it, I have to take all the blame for getting into it, too. That’s too simple, and too unbearable. My job is to try, and to be vigilant, and to keep hoping. I need my jacket, and some water.”
-
notes to self: *sin as reflection of relation to self more than relation to others, *importance yet unimportance of the physical, *lives very physically but starts to associate w deeper spiritual realities, *physical as outside of oneself ? phaedrus as heck
*Jesus in the desert *logic and emotion /line between
St Francis in relation to body: type of vibes
best stories: “falling in love,” “the timing of sin,”