Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
Erik Larson. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
Erik LarsonBeneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.
Erik LarsonI started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
Erik LarsonThe intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
Erik Larson