Saturday, April 07, 2007

Shall we gather at the river... where bright angel-feet have trod...

well you know..
as much as i dislike to admit it
i was setting up the dinner for tonight
for mum's bday
i suddenly thought of cloudstreet

"because, look, even the
missing are there, the gone and the taken
are with them in the shade pools of the peppermints
by the beautiful, the beautiful the river."

"the river of faces from before,
the dark and the light, the forgotten,
the silent, the missing who watch"


as much as i said i may have hated it then
i guess its sorta grown on me
well not that i like the entire book
or the fact that the whole book sorta seems very plotless
(the reconciliation of two families over 20 years in one house)
but some of the lines in there are so pretty

no point to this but yep
nite
-del

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