Passages

Here is the first of a series of quotations such as people used to record in commonplace books. This is from a wonderful novel by the writer's writer Richard Ford,The lay of the Land. With thanks to the blog by Terry Teachout "About Last Night" from whose Almanac section, I am borrowing this device.

"Home may only be where you've memorized the grid patternwhere you can pay with checks,where someone you've already met takes your blood pressure,palpates your liver,slips a digit here and there,measures angstroms gone off your molars a bit-in other words, where your primary caregivers await,their pale gloves already pulled on and snugged."