Friday, April 11, 2008

Good Writing

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Here's my favorite line from a novel called An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England. The protagonist is a man named Sam who is slowly finding out unwanted secrets about his parents. He discovers, among other things, that his father has had a decades-long affair with a woman named Deirdre, who now in desperation wants Sam's help. As she pressures him, he replies: “’No, no, no,’ I told her, by which I also meant, Revenge, revenge, revenge.”
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