External realities of a frustrating nature she obliterated by refusing to believe in them, and when one resisted her disbelief she raged at it. It was told of her that she cried bitterly because she could not go to two dances on one Saturday night. One was in Greenfield and the other in San Lucas—twenty miles apart. To have gone to both and then home would have entailed a sixty-mile horseback ride. This was a fact she could not blast with her disbelief, and so she cried with vexation and went to neither dance.—John Steinbeck, East of Eden (1952)
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
'a fact she could not blast with her disbelief'
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ReplyDeleteI kid. Good passage. I might start this book in May. Are you interesting in posting on the ol' JLQ? I don't know if Kyle has access permission; I'm not an admin. Perhaps the possibility of blogging would be better discussed over email.
Ha, yea, we can fire up the JLQ...I just made you an administrator, so you can make any chances to it that you want. Kyle is actually already an author on that blog...though it seems he never posed. I just made him admin too (a status you have never entrusted to anyone else on WM, I note with disgust).
ReplyDeleteThe JLQ is a bit of a sore subject between Dan and I, so don't mention it to him. I apparently forced him to blog about Bros. K. when he had nothing to say just so that we would not get off schedule, shortly before I stopped blogging myself. He's still annoyed. A few years earlier (on November 13, 2005) I had forced him to write a review of Batman Begins for a print version of the JLQ that I was at that time imagining. That raving review never saw the light of day, and Dan neither forgets nor forgives either offense.
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