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user-inactivated · 3543 days ago · link · · parent · post: Fifth Bi-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately
Some dialogue from John Updike's Gertrude and Claudius. Updike crafted beautiful sentences. And, later:“Is a woman’s death less than a man’s, I wonder? I think death for both is exactly as big as it must be, like the moon when it blackens the sun, to eclipse life completely, even to the last breath, which perhaps will be a sigh over opportunities wasted and happiness missed.”
“I cannot believe –” he began carefully, sensing that she might seize the slightest affront as an excuse to flee his presence forever. “It is a possibly heretical article of my own faith,” he began again, “that a creator would not engender so fierce a love in me without allowing in its object the gleam of a response. Can prayer be so futile?”