Jude the Obscure still?[snip]
This may have been the first "real novel" I read -- in the 11th grade of "prep school". I recall being well impressed by the way the protagonist was fated by his [lack of...] origin to remain a nobody and live a less-than-life and to suffer a lot.
What a claustrophic book! Way too close for comfort, esp. since my father -- who generally said little about his past -- several times told me of his best friend from high school, who as a middle- aging adult was working as a real estate agent in a stoire-front office in a slum -- Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross before that movie was conceived of, ~at best~.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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