it was for freedom from myself and from the land

sufjan stevens

"He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different."

I'm going to continue reading The Road. I shouldn't really have given up on it. That was just me being lazy. It's so sad and so poetic.

"He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned."

Guy Pearce is set to star in the movie adaptation. Excellent! It would be a difficult role, I think, but if he does it well = awards. Cormac McCarthy is THE author for Oscars.