I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Notable Notes on Nooteboom -

The Following Story is overflowing with quotable lines. I found it an interesting read and highlighted some of my favorite passages below.

• CAro DAta VERmibus - Cadaver - flesh given to worms. (p. 41)

Latin scholars joke. I wonder how often those who know Latin giggle at the things people say for just this reason. When my sister and I were in high school we use to curse at each other in foreign languages so our parents wouldn't catch on. Mine were always dirty and nasty in Spanish, hers were Latin and typically more clever.

• Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say. (p. 51)

• Love is in the one who loves, not in the one who is loved. (p. 51)

• Memory of lust is the most elusive of all, once lust becomes just an idea it becomes its own contradiction: absent, gone, and hence unthinkable. (p. 53)

• Sometimes there was just the unending night, and then the days would flit by like nervous moments across the horizon, pausing only long enough to paint the ocean twice over in all shades of red and then to restore it to the dark. (p. 67)

• I had a thousand lives and I took only one. (p. 70)

Of all the choices you can make in your life that have led you where you are, one of thousands of choices could have been made in a different way and you would be someplace completely different.

• It was, I had thought at the time, my last chance of experiencing real life, whatever that might mean. A sense of belonging--together, to the world, that sort of thing. (p. 75)

I have belonged to a few groups all of which were and are important in my life, Robertson/Knutson/Oscarson families, GHS, Rockford Crew, Lockwood Park, Rockford Park District, ISU/Willow Lommen, GVLT, MSU, OIP and Kingston Uni. More to come I'm sure!!