Category: Books
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Things Kazantzakis
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In The i Tetralogy I use a quotation from Kazantzakis’ Report to Greco in at least two places. It reads: “Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break!” It all comes to rest in that sterling quotation mark. It is one of three quotations that Kazantzakis uses in the…
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The Parable of the Sea Wall, and Other Things
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For a while I read Alice Miller, and was moved to underline this quotation in one of her books: “The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our life. And we often impose our most agonizing suffering upon ourselves.” Although not…
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ALLBOOKS REVIEW of DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA
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Shirley Roe, Allbooks Review Editor, just emailed me the first review of Down to a Sunless Sea. It is proof that the writer is often the last to know his worth as an artist. How do you follow a book such as The i Tetralogy? I moved from the Holocaust,…