- two drifters, off to see the world -

a thought -


'Lady,' he says, 'we do not need your truths but your fiction - if you're any good, perhaps you can trickle in some sort of truth, but spare us your real feelings.'

- Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

...Hmmm. Her unnamed magician may have a solid point.

(You don't want to know my "real feelings" right now; suffice that they are dancing around the desire to dangle humanity by its collective shoelaces out of a convenient window. Off to hermit. Back in a week.)


....that muttered, the above is an excellent, evocative, dense, beautiful book. Even if I'm faintly mad at it for spoiling the end of The Great Gatsby for me, serves me right for not reading the latter earlier in life. Definitely recommended.