In every important way we are such secrets from each other, and I do believe that there is a separate language in each of us, also a separate aesthetics and a separate jurisprudence. Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable…
(from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 197)
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Nancy, I didn't realize there were so many touching lines in that book. Thanks for the reminder.MA
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