30 December 2005

non sequitur excerpt from _the corrections_:

Once, when he was a boy, there was a total eclipse of the sun in the Midwest, and a girl in one of the poky towns across the river from St. Jude had sat outside and, in defiance of myriad warnings, studied the dwindling crescent of the sun until her retinas combusted.

"It didn't hurt at all,"the blinded girl had told the St. Jude Chronicle. "It felt like nothing."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

that was kind of a memorable passage.

pa

Anonymous said...

finally you are reading a book that i have already read, rather than vice versa