No one writes about pleasure, recklessness, and evanescence better. Slow Days, Fast Company by Eve Babitz (1977).Īt some level I'll spend my whole life wishing that I'd ever really lived, if just for a little while, the way Babitz did in Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s. "You could not be born at a better time than the present, when we have lost everything." Also: "The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul - like pincers to catch hold of God." Many lines from Weil's first published book are lodged in me forever. It's one of the funniest, subtlest, most perfectly paced, and most existentially terrifying things I've ever read. I have joined the small but growing ranks of fanatical proselytizers for this slim masterpiece of a novel about a Kansas City housewife.
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