Passages from Gilead - Lovelier for it.

I'm so torn. Laptop? Or all-in-one? Laptop? All-in-one?

My brain is too sleepy to fully sort through reviews so that task may have to wait until tomorrow.

In the meantime, I really loved this passage from Gilead. I mean, there are a lot of beautiful passages in Gilead, but this one just really caught my ear. So here it is.

Sweet dreams, world.


"I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then has to close its eyes again. I know this is all mere apparition compared to what awaits us, but it is only lovelier for that. There is a human beauty in it. And I can't believe that, when we have all been changed and put on incorruptibility, we will forget our fantastic condition of mortality and impermanence, the great bright dream of procreating and perishing that meant the whole world to us. In eternity this world will be Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. Because I don't imagine any reality putting this one in the shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try."
- Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (p. 57 )