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Clots as Large as Eggs
What women never mention is that they are forever casting runes, the way the salt flecks the pastry flour, the way the apple peels fall to the table, the way the children’s shoes are arranged in the hallway, all these are portentous matters laden…
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This looks like an interesting book - Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret history of the Sixties - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43015073-chaos
Will report back after I've read it, only about a tenner to download to Kindle.
Reviews here - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/07/chaos-charles-manson-...
“glamour” - to enchant or bewitch; a magic spell (Scots). "Glamour" was an early 18C corruption of "grammar" in the sense of (occult) learning, an association which also gives us "grimoire", a spell-book. Grammar can enchant, language spellbind.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-silence-the-legac...
powerful article/autobiographical story by the writer Junot Diaz
"Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination."
~ Alberto Manguel
An online library of various interesting books is available to read here ~
https://panatmansam.tumblr.com/post/129018805976/sams-garden-book-c...
― Doris Lessing
Oh I do I do I do like Margaret Atwood...wish the interviewer here had shut up more, but besides that it's nice
I've looked that book up, Bobby. It looks very interesting..thanks. I will add it to my wish list.
Be aware that comments posted on Group Walls do not feed through to the Latest Activity feed at the moment. Post away on Group Walls...every now and then I come across then, like little hidden treasures (smiles)...so, I'm just letting you know anyways.
Nice recommendation. Will look up some more about this book.