Lit. in the Bay

snippets of great books read in/around the city -previously @lit-boston-

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“And my mind was empty— or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anesthetized wound. I thought only One day, I’ll weep for this. One of these days, I’ll start to cry.”

- James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“I did not want to think that my life would be like his, or that my mind would ever grow so pale, so without hard places and sharp, sheer drops.”

- James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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“…when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds oneself passing, in great pain, through a maze of false signals and abruptly locking doors.”

- James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room