Modest As Cake

Friday, March 06, 2009

Ah, erudition and cogency

John Cheever on John Updike:

"The only contemporary writer I know now who gives me the sense of the fact that the life we perform is in an environment that enjoys a grandeur that escapes us."

...the life we perform.
...a grandeur that escapes us.

Yes.

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