[Bananafish] His hermitage

James Rovira jamesrovira at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 08:09:42 EST 2007


What's the book? Title and author?  Sounds like Borges or Calvino...

Jim

On 2/12/07, Puebloshalom at cs.com <Puebloshalom at cs.com> wrote:
> I've been reading a book which mentions a mad scribe raving about the sap of
> life and its sacred flow.  It seems that once the sap dries it becomes
> immutable as forge hardened carbon steel chipping flecks of stone.  As long
> as the sap is wet and flowing all is in motion (superlative horses) and no
> eternal stillness.  Etched tombstones and dry ink are only monuments.
> Jerome is vainly attempting to keep his ink wet forever.  He has traded his
> apples for flowing sap like the mad scribe.  A solution that seems to have
> eluded Seymour and Teddy.
>
>  Mike's wheel and Teddies re-appearances and Seymours exits are grabs at the
> flowing sap.
>
>  Daniel
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