When I Was In My 20s It

I Think My Mother Was Very Spiritual.

When You're In Danger Of Losing A Thing It Becomes Precious And When It's Around Us, It's In Tedious Abundance And We Take It For Granted As If We're Going To Live Forever, Which We're Not.

I Belong To The Middle Class That Grew Up Very Influenced By The Catholic Church. The People Of The Novel Are From A More Pagan And Practical World In Which The Christianity Is Just A Veneer.

...with A Rush Of Feeling He Felt That This Must Be Happiness. As Soon As The Thought Came To Him, He Fought It Back, Blaming The Whiskey. The Very Idea Was As Dangerous As Presumptive Speech: Happiness Could Not Be Sought Or Worried Into Being, Or Even Fully Grasped; It Should Be Allowed Its Own Slow Pace So That It Passes Unnoticed, If It Ever Comes At All.

My Father Was Very Outwardly Religious.