Bob Drouin

People, the environment (trees rule naturally) and books. I don’t care much for politicians.🇨🇦 😁

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@Bernibunny Cats are resourceful and resilient - we had one return (thinner) after being away a month. Hope he finds his way home.

[Bob Drouin @RobertPDrouin]

“he (Ranz) was forever asking questions and looking after them (guards) all in order to safeguard the works of the masters . . .” Bizarre - I’ve never thought of museum guards this way. Never imagined they would destroy the works they were protecting. #JavierMariastogether

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He exaggerates his potential influence in another person: “. . . the possibility that the apparent age and appearance of a person can depend on whoever happened to take an interest in them and on having money”. #JavierMariastogether

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“She (Luisa) didn’t betray me, she didn’t contradict me, she didn’t intervene, she remained silent, and I thought that if she allowed me that, she would allow me anything . . .” #javiermariastogether

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@magistrabeck This is rather ironic because without question War and Peace is my favourite book of all time. It is also special because I read it in the early days of the pandemic lockdown in March -April 2020.

[Bob Drouin @RobertPDrouin]

“She (Luisa) didn’t betray me, she didn’t contradict me, she didn’t intervene, she remained silent, and I thought that if she allowed me that, she would allow me anything . . .” #javiermarias

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@MoMcGran The moment is all there is - easier said than done.

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Nothing endures: "What takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us is identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try, . . . lives . . . choosing and rejecting and selecting". #javiermarias

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Seems bleak : ". . when they contract matrimony, the contracting parties are, in fact, demanding of each other an act of mutual suppression or obliteration, the suppression of what each of them was . . . " . #javiermariastogether

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@literatureSC @Miss_Mainwaring @SMOrtega123 @LarryKellogg @LawrenceWCoates @Sarah_in_USA @DykasMary @piaze @kitsonthomas1 @PeeperkornP @raziakkhan @QuizShowGuru @bmoon54061740 @cpcbestline @JohnRNeeleman @AnnSmithSF @DrMLHarris @MargaretBeal3 @Maurice43565305 @aliner Sounds good - count me in.

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A childhood lived in fear - not a great concept. “I didn’t breathe a word about what had happened, for fear of being told off, because an incident like this offered so many opportunities for reproach: . . . “ #knausgaardtogether

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@Sarah_in_USA It has to be style, I think.

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The conversations with Geir provide the most insight and are particularly interesting. “So, if I don’t cry at mum’s funeral or I don’t put my arm round him (father), it doesn’t mean anything to him. He feels what he feels, others feel what they feel.” #knausgaardtogether

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"I had seen the long way he had come, to the life he lived now, which he had managed so that everything that depressed him was gone. He (Espen) had landed on his feet, he was happy, and if he was critical of much in the world he didn't despise it." #knausgaardtogether

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I can relate: “need to rid yourself of all the banality and small mindedness rotting inside you, all the trivia that can make you angry or unhappy, that can create a desire for something pure and great into which you can dissolve and disappear.” #knausgaardtogether

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A slap in the face. According to Geir, Knausgaard’s morals make his life unhappy: “Because it is so joyless. Because your life is so joyless. You have such unbelievable reserves and so much talent, which stops there. It becomes art, but never more that that”. #knausgaardtogethere

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“Thomas was friendly and undemanding. . .nothing to lose when you spoke to him, perhaps because he didn’t take himself very seriously, although he was self-confident, or possibly that was the reason why. He cared about others, that was the impression he gave.” #knausgaardtogether

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“. . . or at least I, liked being there so much. Farms, animals grazing, vast forests, small gravel paths, lakes, clear fresh air. Dense black night, starry sky, total silence.” What’s not to like. #knausgaardtogether

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A Douglas fir in Victoria, BC #thicktrunktuesday

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A bit dramatic - change can occur without it being “one last gamble”, even at forty. “When you were forty you realised it was all here, banal everyday life, fully formed, and it always would be unless you did something. Unless you took one last gamble.” #knausgaardtogether