Sublime

She said my words were kindly spoken but not necessary.

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castigated

Thomas Merton

You must have therapy soon or you will become a screaming queen.

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

James Dickey to start with. You know his poems, and there’s a famous novel, Deliverance—” “I saw the movie. Men going down a river in canoes.” “Yes, but don’t read that one. Read To the White Sea. Lesser known, but I think better. For your purposes. I want you to read at least one Cormac McCarthy novel, All the Pretty Horses or Suttree. Will you do

the unexpected dignity of a choice.