The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
John Updike...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
John UpdikeThe literary scene is a kind of Medusaโs raft, small and sinking, and oneโs instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
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