Winter's Wax

It has proved a tempestuous week in terms of ideas, mortality and the wellspring of friendship.

This afternoon I bought Richard Ford's Lay of the Land as I hope to read all three of the Bascomb novel sequentially (I read Independence Day in 1999). I also bought The Procedure by Harry Mulisch. I just finished it. much like Discovery of Heaven, I appreciated its melange of ideas but felt somewhat cheated by the time I reached the novel's end.