The First Paragraph Of A Novel That Came To Me In a Dream

[poliphilo]

The Iranian-American diplomat Michael Arahi made a collection of all the books ever written about World War II and housed it- along with his personal papers- in a bomb-proof underground  library in rural West Virginia. The reception suite of the Michael Arahi Library is a single-storey glass and steel building- like a car show-room- and you'd hardly notice it in the landscape were it not for the 40 foot statue of Arahi out front. This bronze colossus is shown in the process of rising from its chair, right arm extended and angled downwards as if greeting a child. Not every critic likes it.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Very impressive, actually. It can be seen from far away and...it is handsome. The whole cemetery is mostly very nice (except for in some of the back lots where there are Very Old Monuments that have been vandalized.) Which leads to the question, why do people vandalize cemeteries?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't really know the answer except to say, in the words of the serial killer in Springsteen's Nebraska, "Well...I guess there's just a meanness in this world."

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

ah....The Boss. I am constantly amazed by the meanness in this world.