[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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