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>A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.

>Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

>The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

>This is a moment:


Have the book but haven't read it yet. Been saving it, because I can already tell from the opening that it's going to be a work of art and I'll want to savour the first time I read it.

i didn't really like this

main character was oh-so-obviously an idealized version of the author, to the point where literally the only flaw i remember him having was that he was too smart for the other students to like him

>>8452110
That is a book I haven't read.

This is gonna sound really dumb, but I started reading Wolfe because I read that Look Homeward Angel was one of Kerouac's favorite books. Couldn't find it at my local used bookstore though and got You Can't Go Home Again, then found Look Homeward Angel after I finished it. I liked You Can't Go Home Again a lot more.

>>8452110
That's a nice cover.