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Bearlee -> RE: Book worm (6/11/2006 9:28:54 AM)
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I am a reader; I could not name one favorite book, but will mention one I'm reading NOW...and like very much:
"What the Stones Remember - A Life Rediscovered" by the poet Patrick Lane.
There is a quote on the front jacket: "To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment"...I couldn't agree more.
While I could mention his passages on his love of being in his garden or the natural world (he gives a several-page discription of mating spiders), or his many, many varied experiences; I read this last night and it haunts me:
"I'd already drunk two bottles in the night and there I was with another while my hand slipped along the thin spines of poetry books in search of more. Then the moring, the spasms, the wretched collapse of a body gone so far past life it was a thing and nothing more. Tears, but not for anyone. I licked them in hopes they were tears of alcohol. I licked my skin for the sweat of alcohol."
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