quinta-feira, 15 de setembro de 2016

Wives and husbands

"'You're not getting enough air with that woman. You look as if you're suffocating. Your tissues aren't getting any oxygen. She'll give you cancer.'

'Oh', I said. 'She may think she's offering me the blessings of an American marriage. Real Americans are supposed to suffer with their wives, and wives with husbands. Like Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. It's the classic US grief, and a child of immigrants like me ought to be grateful. For a Jew it's a step up.'"

Saul Bellow (1915-2005). Humboldt's Gift (1975). London: Penguin Books, 2008, p. 43

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