дыбро и про книжки)

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Я всё ещё на море, тут хорошо и жарко (ттт), у меня есть много книжек а теперь ещё и интернет

Чудесное из Фрая:
I have a very clear black-and-white memory of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury during my childhood, being sycophantically interviewed on a BBC Sunday-night programme.
'Your Grace, you are considered, I believe, by those who know you to be very wise.'
'Am I? Am I? Oh my goodness. I wonder if that is true.'
'Well, perhaps you can tell us what you think wisdom is?'
'Wisdom? Wisdom? Well now. I think perhaps wisdom is the ability to cope, don't you?'

И тут же наткнулась на параллельное место в Team of Rivals (чудесный нон-фикшн про Линкольна (и, соответственно, его команду)) :
Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way. (Это было в качестве комментария по поводу хронической не то депрессии, не то меланхолии, от которой Линкольн страдал всю жизнь)
Вообще Team of Rivals читается как роман, толстенная вещь объёмом с Войну и мир, но всё равно так и хочется растянуть удовольствие)) А ещё бывалый слэшер во мне несколько раз уже встрепенулся, но был на ходу осажен автором:
Some have suggested that there may have been a sexual relationship between Lincoln and Speed. Their intimacy, however, like the relationship between Seward and Berdan and, as we shall see, between Chase and Stanton, is more an index to en era when close male friendships, accompanied by open expressions of affection and passion, were familiar and socially acceptable.

the lady doth protest for quite a bit more, aka details)

Nor can sharing a bed be considered evidence of an erotic involvement. It was common practice in an era when private quarters were a rare luxury, when males regularly slept in the same bed as children and continued to do so in academies, boardinghouses, and overcrowded hotels. The room above Speed's store functioned as a sort of dormitory, with two other young men living there part of the time as well as Lincoln and Speed. The attorneys of the Eighth in Illinois where Lincoln would travel regularly shared beds – with the exception of Judge David Davis, whose immense girth left no room for a companion. As the historian Donald Yacovone whites in his study of the fiercely expressed love and devotion among several abolitionist leaders in the same era, the “preoccupation with elemental sex” reveals more about later centuries “than about the nineteenth.”

«Щегол» Донны Тартт: прекрасно написан, чем-то напоминает Александра Грина, наверное, внезано осязаемыми описаниями. Дошла до места

небольшой сюжетный спойлер

, где на сцене возникает папаша-алкоголик с жуткой новой женой, и сломалась, какой-то уже просто Диккенс, бу. Думаю всё-таки переломить себя и продолжить четать, ибо вещь хорошая)