29/10/2010

The Human Condition

"You can't change the weather, Tom," June would say, meaning that some things simply were what they were, and we had no choice but to accept them. Tom understood the principle, but that had never stopped him from cursing the snowstorms and cold winds that blew against his small, shivering body.

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies (p. 24)

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