Summer Read

If you are heading to a cottage, I suggest this book for your lakeside reading pleasure. Its all about wasting our youth, escaping reality in the country and by drinking and dancing, and its a bit of a love story. My favourite quote from it is this:
"The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third- before long the best lines cancel out- and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true."
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