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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Books Souls and Snow

Posted by on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:52 AM

The opening of one of my favorite novels, Josef Skvorecky's The Engineer of Human Souls...
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The meaning of the book's title?

The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul. (Joseph Stalin, Speech at home of Maxim Gorky, 26 October 1932)

 

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One of my favorite books as well. A good long one to pull out and reread just now.
Posted by JenniferP on December 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM
2
Eric Grandy KNOWS!!!!!!


GOD I Wish IO WASSAL the gay police on this 20 years ago....
Posted by daniel on December 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM
3
"And I'll be sending all you writers to a wonderful vacation in Siberia and the gulags"!
Posted by Vince on December 18, 2008 at 3:18 PM

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