THOMAS WOLFE: A SHORT BUT PRODIGIOUS LIFE.(IDEAS)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: October 1, 2000 | Copyright information

For what are we, my brother? We are a phantom flare of grieved desire, the ghostling and phosphoric flicker of immortal time, a brevity of days haunted by the eternity of the earth. We are an unspeakable utterance, an insatiable hunger, an unquenchable thirst; a lust that bursts our sinews, explodes our brains, sickens and rots our guts, and rips our hearts asunder. We are a twist of passion, a moment's flame of love and ecstasy, a sinew of bright blood and agony, a lost cry, a mus...

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