fiction depiction
April 22, 2009
I’m reading ” A Separate Peace” by John Knowles. It’s beautiful.
an excerpt
” Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person “the world today” or “life” or “reality” he will assume you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever”
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