"If it hadn't been for books we would have been entirely at the mercy of sex. Books steadied us, they gave us gravity."
Anatole Broyard
I haven't read Broyard's memoir Kafka Was the Rage but every writer can surely identify with that observation -- either as observed truth or wishful thinking.
Broyard was writing about life in New York right after WW 2: "1946 was a good time -- perhaps the best time -- in the twentieth century. The war was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, of repossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and it seemed to me that happiness itself might be cheaply had."
Sounds like another book for To Read tower. [Sigh]
Posted by Deck at July 27, 2006 06:25 AM