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Frolics & Detours

A digital commonplace book, plus the occasional photograph of Virgil the basset hound.

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  • [My father] and I never seemed to be in rapport: Our basic assumptions were very different. But that now looks superficial. I treat my sons much as he treated me: out of breath with impatience, and then a long inhalation of affection.

    Saul Bellow, in a letter to Martin Amis dated March 13, 1996, as published in The New Yorker (April 26, 2010).

    Posted on May 23, 2010 with 18 notes

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