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... is surprisingly close to its fifteen minutes for my reading habits.
Have you ever read any of Patrick Modiano-he has the Nobel Prize and is a Parisian dyed-in-the-wool scribe.
I only flipped through several of his books, but comparisons to Proust have renewed my interest.:coffee:
I wonder what ol' Siggy would say if he knew I picked this book out of the recycling bin at our local dump?
There's a telephone number... Whittaker Chambers' office?
Aeschylus' passage: "drop by drop like water falling upon a rock, and by the grace of God comes wisdom," seems fitting.
Chambers was a philosopher more often viewed as a suspicious knave.
I need to read Weinstein's Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. Rod Lester's bio, Press Box Red is in the batting cage now.
Two fascinating figures of courage and conviction.
Finished "The Goldfinch" and am starting "To Kill a Mockingbird," which I haven't read in over thirty years, but thought with the upcoming publication of "Go Tell a Watchman" by Harper Lee (written in the mid-50's but never before published), I thought it was a good time to revisit her incredible novel.