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  9. <title type="text">Better Than Dead</title>
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  12. <updated>2024-07-16T00:33:01Z</updated>
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  24. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bleeding]]></title>
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  28. <updated>2024-07-16T00:33:01Z</updated>
  29. <published>2024-07-16T00:33:01Z</published>
  30. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="anger" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="conflict" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="contradictions" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="love" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" />
  31. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “The ‘bleeding hearts’ who want love without anger, relationship without conflict, harmony without contradictions, are forced to create an illusory world of unambivalent love.…It is not accidental that such perfect persons (who never question their own motives or suspect their hidden ideology or self-interest) make others feel tainted and guilty. [&#8230;]]]></summary>
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  34. <p>“The ‘bleeding hearts’ who want love without anger, relationship without conflict, harmony without contradictions, are forced to create an illusory world of unambivalent love.…It is not accidental that such perfect persons (who never question their own motives or suspect their hidden ideology or self-interest) make others feel tainted and guilty. Every sentimental sermon is served with a side-dish of guilt. In their presence, honest doubt is named cynicism, anger is called evil, and ambivalence is castigated as craziness.”</p>
  35. <p>—Sam Keen, <em>The Passionate Life</em></p>
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  37. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  45. <author>
  46. <name>PJ</name>
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  48.  
  49. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Trauma]]></title>
  50. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7925" />
  51.  
  52. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7925</id>
  53. <updated>2024-06-12T23:56:43Z</updated>
  54. <published>2024-06-12T23:56:43Z</published>
  55. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="control" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="trauma" />
  56. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “That’s one of the most ruthless lessons trauma teaches you: You are not in charge. All you can control is your reaction to whatever grenades the demented universe rolls in your path. Beginning with whether you get out of bed.” —Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  57.  
  58. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7925"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  59. <p>“That’s one of the most ruthless lessons trauma teaches you: You are not in charge. All you can control is your reaction to whatever grenades the demented universe rolls in your path. Beginning with whether you get out of bed.”</p>
  60. <p>—Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” <em>The Atlantic,</em> September 2021</p>
  61. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trauma4WP@@@.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7926" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trauma4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="562" height="430" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trauma4WP@@@.jpeg 562w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trauma4WP@@@-300x230.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trauma4WP@@@-150x115.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px" /></a></center></p>
  62. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  63. ]]></content>
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  69. <entry>
  70. <author>
  71. <name>PJ</name>
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  73.  
  74. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Time]]></title>
  75. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7923" />
  76.  
  77. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7923</id>
  78. <updated>2024-06-11T00:20:54Z</updated>
  79. <published>2024-06-11T00:20:54Z</published>
  80. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="time" />
  81. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “Time, as we know, like the sea, is a force and a creature all of its own. We can stop neither of them. We stand on the sand, watching as the days become years, as the line made by the tide disappears, as the hungry waves devour the borderline that [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  82.  
  83. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7923"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  84. <p>“Time, as we know, like the sea, is a force and a creature all of its own. We can stop neither of them. We stand on the sand, watching as the days become years, as the line made by the tide disappears, as the hungry waves devour the borderline that wants to find the land. People, places, experiences and the act of living a life, our days come together and we find we have grown; we are being carried in time&#8217;s salty course.”</p>
  85. <p>—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, <em>Thin Places</em></p>
  86. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/time-4WP@@@.jpeg"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7924" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/time-4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="455" height="450" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/time-4WP@@@.jpeg 455w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/time-4WP@@@-300x297.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/time-4WP@@@-150x148.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px" /></a></center></p>
  87. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  88. ]]></content>
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  94. <entry>
  95. <author>
  96. <name>PJ</name>
  97. </author>
  98.  
  99. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Memories]]></title>
  100. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7920" />
  101.  
  102. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7920</id>
  103. <updated>2024-05-29T01:15:20Z</updated>
  104. <published>2024-05-29T01:15:20Z</published>
  105. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="memories" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="reality" />
  106. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “All we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.” —Matt Haig, How To Stop Time Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  107.  
  108. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7920"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  109. <p>“All we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.”</p>
  110. <p>—Matt Haig, <em>How To Stop Time</em></p>
  111. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/memories4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7921" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/memories4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="561" height="384" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/memories4WP@@@.jpeg 561w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/memories4WP@@@-300x205.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/memories4WP@@@-150x103.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px" /></a></center></p>
  112. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  113. ]]></content>
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  119. <entry>
  120. <author>
  121. <name>PJ</name>
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  123.  
  124. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Life]]></title>
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  126.  
  127. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7918</id>
  128. <updated>2024-05-24T01:23:24Z</updated>
  129. <published>2024-05-24T01:23:24Z</published>
  130. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="life" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" />
  131. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “There are people that need me. And that, in itself, is life. There are people I do not know yet that need me. That is life.” —Bobby Mcilvaine, diary, August 20, 2001, quoted in “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021 by Jennifer Senior Disclaimer: The views expressed [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  132.  
  133. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7918"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  134. <p>“There are people that need me. And that, in itself, is life. There are people I do not know yet that need me. That is life.”</p>
  135. <p>—Bobby Mcilvaine, diary, August 20, 2001, quoted in “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” <em>The Atlantic</em>, September 2021 by Jennifer Senior</p>
  136. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/life4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7919" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/life4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="568" height="330" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/life4WP@@@.jpeg 568w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/life4WP@@@-300x174.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/life4WP@@@-150x87.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px" /></a></center></p>
  137. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  138. ]]></content>
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  144. <entry>
  145. <author>
  146. <name>PJ</name>
  147. </author>
  148.  
  149. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Mountain]]></title>
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  151.  
  152. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7915</id>
  153. <updated>2024-05-20T23:16:03Z</updated>
  154. <published>2024-05-20T23:16:03Z</published>
  155. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="contemplation" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="nature" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" />
  156. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” —Li Po (China, 701-762) (tr. Sam Hamill) Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  157.  
  158. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7915"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  159. <p>“The birds have vanished down the sky.<br />
  160. Now the last cloud drains away.<br />
  161. We sit together, the mountain and me,<br />
  162. until only the mountain remains.”</p>
  163. <p>—Li Po (China, 701-762) (tr. Sam Hamill)</p>
  164. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mountain4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7916" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mountain4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="573" height="373" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mountain4WP@@@.jpeg 573w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mountain4WP@@@-300x195.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mountain4WP@@@-150x98.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px" /></a></center></p>
  165. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  166. ]]></content>
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  172. <entry>
  173. <author>
  174. <name>PJ</name>
  175. </author>
  176.  
  177. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Spirit]]></title>
  178. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7913" />
  179.  
  180. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7913</id>
  181. <updated>2024-05-17T00:19:10Z</updated>
  182. <published>2024-05-17T00:19:10Z</published>
  183. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="Uncategorized" />
  184. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “The force of spirit is only as great as its expression, its depth only as deep as it dares to spread out and lose itself in its display.” —G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (tr. Michael Inwood) Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  185.  
  186. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7913"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  187. <p>“The force of spirit is only as great as its expression, its depth only as deep as it dares to spread out and lose itself in its display.”</p>
  188. <p>—G. W. F. Hegel, <em>The Phenomenology of Spirit </em>(tr. Michael Inwood)</p>
  189. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spirit4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7914" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spirit4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="570" height="332" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spirit4WP@@@.jpeg 570w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spirit4WP@@@-300x175.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/spirit4WP@@@-150x87.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" /></a></center></p>
  190. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
  191. ]]></content>
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  195. <thr:total>0</thr:total>
  196. </entry>
  197. <entry>
  198. <author>
  199. <name>PJ</name>
  200. </author>
  201.  
  202. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Fact]]></title>
  203. <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7909" />
  204.  
  205. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7909</id>
  206. <updated>2024-05-15T00:49:08Z</updated>
  207. <published>2024-05-15T00:49:08Z</published>
  208. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="facts" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="poetry" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="quote of the day" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="truth" />
  209. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[Random quote of the day: “Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.” —Robert Graves, The White Goddess Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  210.  
  211. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7909"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Random quote of the day:</strong></p>
  212. <p>“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”</p>
  213. <p>—Robert Graves, <em>The White Goddess </em></p>
  214. <p><center><a href="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fact4WP@@@.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7910" src="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fact4WP@@@.jpeg" alt="" width="579" height="299" srcset="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fact4WP@@@.jpeg 579w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fact4WP@@@-300x155.jpeg 300w, http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/fact4WP@@@-150x77.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px" /></a></center></p>
  215. <p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.</p>
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  223. <author>
  224. <name>PJ</name>
  225. </author>
  226.  
  227. <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Lost King]]></title>
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  229.  
  230. <id>http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7911</id>
  231. <updated>2024-05-15T00:54:07Z</updated>
  232. <published>2024-04-29T22:16:14Z</published>
  233. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="books" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="history" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="review" />
  234. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[This was originally released under the title The King&#8217;s Grave and reissued under the title The Lost King as a tie in to the excellent Stephen Frears movie based on this book. Ms. Langley&#8217;s fight to be taken seriously by academia and officialdom in her search for Richard III&#8217;s grave is a compelling story of [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  235.  
  236. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7911"><![CDATA[<p>This was originally released under the title <i>The King&#8217;s Grave</i> and reissued under the title <i>The Lost King</i> as a tie in to the excellent Stephen Frears movie based on this book. Ms. Langley&#8217;s fight to be taken seriously by academia and officialdom in her search for Richard III&#8217;s grave is a compelling story of a rare underdog victory. Her story is laid out in alternating chapters with historian Michael Jones&#8217; telling of Richard&#8217;s life and milieu. It makes for a fascinating read, especially Philippa Langley&#8217;s mysterious intuition (backed by meticulous research) that led her to the unlikely final resting place of a king</p>
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  247.  
  248. <title type="html"><![CDATA[Tricksy and pondery]]></title>
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  252. <updated>2024-05-15T00:57:40Z</updated>
  253. <published>2024-04-25T22:21:04Z</published>
  254. <category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="books" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="review" /><category scheme="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog" term="sacred combe" />
  255. <summary type="html"><![CDATA[It would seem that Thomas Maloney is an admirer of the novelist John Fowles and this work does have something of a lesser Fowles feel. I was a big John Fowles fan at one time though I haven&#8217;t read any of his works for decades and have no idea whether they would hold up. My [&#8230;]]]></summary>
  256.  
  257. <content type="html" xml:base="http://www.pj-thompson.com/blog/?p=7912"><![CDATA[<p>It would seem that Thomas Maloney is an admirer of the novelist John Fowles and this work does have something of a lesser Fowles feel. I was a big John Fowles fan at one time though I haven&#8217;t read any of his works for decades and have no idea whether they would hold up. My tastes have changed, my life experiences have evolved. (Or devolved according to one&#8217;s POV, but this review is only tangentially about myself&#8211;as all reviews by anyone are tangentially about themselves. I&#8217;m moving on from that.) Initially I was going to give it 3 stars then thought 4 stars and bounced back and forth quite a bit.</p>
  258. <p>From the start when reading <i>The Sacred Combe</i> (a phrase from John Fowles!) I felt it was a book from another era. Not Victorian, more recent than that, but not contemporary (though it was published in 2016). Modernist or postmodernist maybe. It&#8217;s slyly self-conscious in that pomo way. </p>
  259. <p>This is a character and setting driven novel rather than plot-driven. I&#8217;m certainly okay with that, though the characters at times seem more like set pieces than fully fleshed works of the imagination. It&#8217;s a tricksy novel, full of literary allusions, some more obvious than others. It has secrets that once revealed are more &#8220;Oh, okay,&#8221; rather than stunningly revelatory. Things seem about to happen then they don&#8217;t. The story is told in a wandering way with lush nature writing that at times walks the line of being over written.</p>
  260. <p>Am I glad I read it? Well, I finished it. I no longer finish books that aren&#8217;t giving me *something.* So that tells you…something. Am I satisfied with having finished? I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s not only a tricksy novel but pondery with a placid surface. Perhaps I should have done more pondering before writing this review, but I&#8217;m done pondering. I woke up with the need to write down my thoughts and move on. And I suppose that, too, tells you…something.</p>
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