Thursday, March 15, 2018

the last book I ever read (Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, excerpt ten)

from Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders:

Did I murder Elmer? the woman said.

You did, said the Brit.

I did, said the woman. Was I born with just those predispositions and desires that would lead me, after my whole preceding life (during which I had killed exactly no one), to do just that thing? I was. Was that my doing? Was that fair? Did I ask to be born licentious, greedy, slightly misanthropic, and to find Elmer so irritating? I did not. But there I was.



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