(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.
