“About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.” MenKindStoriesHandsSpiritReadingGriefPaperPagesTwentiesI RealizedTestimonyForeheadsFourteenLukeGazingCharismaticHand Holding Author:Blake Butler
“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?” KnowsMenBookStatesSpiritSufferingFateCreaturesPagesBrutes Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)
“There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.” IfsAgeSpiritChoicesDoubtMastersOughtPagesNo DoubtVolumeEntry Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks