Gravelight (2011)
“Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
—JOHN MILTON THE HEAVILY LADEN WINNEBAGO MOTOR HOME HAD LEFT Glastonbury, New York at dawn, its destination the small Appalachian hamlet that had seemed so easily accessible on Dylan Palmer’s survey map a few weeks before. But as the hours wore on toward dark, it began to seem (as in the words of the old adage) that you couldn’t get there from here.
There were ...four of them in the overloaded RV—Dylan and Truth and the two grad students, Ninian Blake and Rowan Moorcock, neither of whom was allowed by the Institute’s insurance company to drive the Winnebago. Truth wasn’t even certain that Ninian could drive—there were times that the boy seemed so vague and dreamy that Truth was surprised he’d made it as far as graduate school.
“Boy?” He’s at least twenty-four; you aren’t exactly old enough to be his mother, Truth admonished herself.MoreLess
—JOHN MILTON THE HEAVILY LADEN WINNEBAGO MOTOR HOME HAD LEFT Glastonbury, New York at dawn, its destination the small Appalachian hamlet that had seemed so easily accessible on Dylan Palmer’s survey map a few weeks before. But as the hours wore on toward dark, it began to seem (as in the words of the old adage) that you couldn’t get there from here.
There were ...four of them in the overloaded RV—Dylan and Truth and the two grad students, Ninian Blake and Rowan Moorcock, neither of whom was allowed by the Institute’s insurance company to drive the Winnebago. Truth wasn’t even certain that Ninian could drive—there were times that the boy seemed so vague and dreamy that Truth was surprised he’d made it as far as graduate school.
“Boy?” He’s at least twenty-four; you aren’t exactly old enough to be his mother, Truth admonished herself.MoreLess
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