Tuesday, November 8, 2011

A Visit from the Goon Squad


"I was working for the city as a janitor in a neighborhood elementary school and, in summer, collecting litter in the park alongside the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge. I felt no shame whatsoever in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all."

A Visit from the Goon Squad, p. 71
By Jennifer Egan
Published 2010

9 comments:

  1. what a beautiful beautiful blog!!!
    i am following with awe : )

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  2. I love your blog. Have you ever read "drop city" by TC Boyle?...highly recommend it. Please keep up this blog, it is very refreshing!!

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  3. Totally bookmarked this in my copy as a favorite quote from the book :)

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  4. Hmm, very interesting. Thank you for sharing. Your blog is beautiful.

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  5. excellent quote - beautiful images.... and i have never heard of formspring either being quite new to the blog world... is it working well for you?

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  6. This is on my to be read pile.
    Thank you for this blog, it's so beautiful. I can't believe I've only come across it now! (thank God for Bloglovin)

    Jesue V
    FILM MUSIC ART blog

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  7. I love how this blog is so simple, those pictures are so inspirational and the quote fits perfectly.
    www.thegirlwiththenotepad.blogspot.com

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  8. Am currently reading this, hot on the heels of Paul Murray's Skippy Dies. Very enjoyable, shifting through the gears.

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