their vatic sayings
the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments
blending between the medieval romance and the early picaresque novel
dark with the consciousness of human fate, and besotted with the high adjectival style of that consciousness as it lifts a coming-of-age narrative to the level of brilliant chiaroscuro meditation
ughhhh i love the way he writes
"Elbows off the table!” A cheerful and peremptory call to manners that has vast stretches of childhood in it.
damn great word
