just finished reading East of Eden and I could write a novel as good if I were given all the years ahead of me. i suppose we'll see.
this weekend I picked up a book on Korean Slang and old Korean Folk Tales so I should have some interesting things to report - on the literary front, anyway, soon.
"when a child first catches adults out - when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just - his worlds fall into panic and desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."
- Steinbeck (bolding is mine; E.G.)
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