Today, I asked for payment from my neighbors for all services rendered, past present and future: one of their translated copies of War and Peace. THEY GAVE IT TO ME. THANK YOU GOD. I'm not going to fight TOO hard to reject any further gifts from them, but I'm encouraging them not to do anything else for me at all besides talk with me from time to time.
Right now I'm only around page 10, but I'm focusing on this book until I'm done with it. I am pretty clear I already get the message, but there is nothing like hearing a message repeated in a million different ways. It lets you hear the message from anyone you meet.
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Linna Heartbooger
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Good for you... good point about "hearing a message repeated in a million different ways."
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"