Coffee Table Declarations
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
What better way to spend a vacation than reading a good book? I highly recommend this one. You will get swept up in it before you realize what has happened. It is a great summer read. And to demonstrate why I love it, here is an exerpt:
"My advantage, I realized, was not only that I could embarass him or pity him, or recognize his foolishness - a supposed genius, a rich man with a young wife - not even the years I had left while his were spent. My advantage was that I knew what he was trying to do, here in his kingdom by the sea, where art was what he said it was and the limits of time and age were banished and everything was possible because everything that mattered was inside his head. My advantage was that I knew what he was trying to do - and I was better at it."
"My advantage, I realized, was not only that I could embarass him or pity him, or recognize his foolishness - a supposed genius, a rich man with a young wife - not even the years I had left while his were spent. My advantage was that I knew what he was trying to do, here in his kingdom by the sea, where art was what he said it was and the limits of time and age were banished and everything was possible because everything that mattered was inside his head. My advantage was that I knew what he was trying to do - and I was better at it."
