One such section has an art history scholar approaching middle-age ruminate on how he ruined his marriage because he was scared of love.<\/p>\n
Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a drowning, helpless feeling when he glimpsed her beside him in bed: her ropy arms and soft, generous ass. Then he’d folded it in half again, so when he felt desire for Susan, it no longer brought with it an edgy terror of never being satisfied. Then in half again, so that feeling desire entailed no immediate need to act. Then in half again, so he hardly felt it. His desire was so small in the end that Ted could slip it inside his desk or a pocket and forget about it, and this gave him a feeling of safety and accomplishment, of having dismantled a perilous apparatus that might have crushed them both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Good Squad<\/em>, p. 217.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nYour Correspondent, Has already reached his all-final end and is already off on his new-starting future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A novel that sits perfectly as a summer read, or an on-the-bus-commute-companion and was endorsed by the Richard and Judy book-club and yet still won the Pulitzer is a curious proposition. A novel that does all this and has a chapter that is a powerpoint presentation and that ends in a dystopian vision of a … <\/p>\n
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