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I’m about halfway through Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories. I cannot believe I’ve gone this long in my life without this. Every story I can feel in my chest. I’ll articulate more when I’ve finished all of them but for now I’ll say I love how there feels to be a greater force permeating what’s on the page. Almost as if these characters are redeeming humanity for me.
Last book I read was A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. That book made me feel good about living and even though the setting was barren and hopeless I felt like I wanted to spend another day with Ivan after finishing it.
Re all the Melville talk: I too had the experience of hearing how boring Moby Dick is but was shocked to find how funny and full of life it is. The digression about the classification of whales seemed very ‘‘modern” to me. Actually, Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize speech made me want to pick it up. He made it sound like one of his songs. I love his short stories too, especially Bartleby.
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