That body is still new to her, she’s still trying it out, thinking it through, a bit like a kid walking the streets with a loaded gun and deciding whether he’s packing it to protect himself or to begin a life of crime.
-from The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
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January 27, 2009
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never read Roth. I need to change that soon.
January 30, 2009
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