A MARVELOUS WORLD/ SAUL BELLOW
Theories of a wholly good or a wholly malevolent world strike him as foolish. Of those who believe in a wholly good world he says that they do not understand depravity. As for pessimists, the question he asks of them is, “Is that all they see, such people?” For him the world is both, […]
After the Wedding Night/ Pearl S. Buck
And then he lay in his bed warm and satisfied while in the kitchen the woman fed the fire and boiled the water. He would have like to have slept, now that he could, but his foolish body, which he had made to arise every morning so early for all these years, would not sleep […]
