Mercier e Camier

A friend’s eye is a good mirror. The journey of Mercier and Camier is one I can tell, if I will, for I was with them all the time.Physically it was fairly easy going, without seas or frontiers to be crossed, through regions untormented on the whole, if desolate in parts. Mercier and Camier did not re Leggi tutto

Alone he watched the sky go out, dark deepen to its full. He kept his eyes on the engulfed horizon, for he knew from experience what last throes it was capable of. And in the dark he could hear better too, he could hear the sounds the long day had kept from him, human murmurs for example, and the ra Leggi tutto

November 2024 reread: On second thought, my favorite line may be spoken by the erstwhile Watt, however brief his reappearance in M&C: “Fuck life!” ________________ You know that Kids in the Hall sketch with Jerry and Jerry, the Sizzler Sisters? McDonald and Foley play two escaped lunatics with a fondnes Leggi tutto

A journey that leads nowhere...On The Road without any philosophical scaffolding...the Road to Oz with no yellow bricks. When I see homeless people just pushing their shopping carts around I think of this story. This is one of the books I recommend to people after they read Waiting for Godot; I thin Leggi tutto