“A good cure for insomnia is plenty of sleep.”
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Pink Cake: The Quote Collection
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Pink Cake: The Quote Collection – Kramer Wetzel
Pink Cake
Pink Cake: A Commonplace Book
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“Thirdly: That if they are acting rightly in this, there is no call for us to be angry. If not rightly, it is obviously against their will and through ignorance.”
Book XI, 18…
Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius – Marcus Aurelius
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius & Gregory Hays
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
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It was a book I read, last month? Yeah, couple of months before. The novel is set in TorC, which, if one is native, or “native neighbor,” one understands that it’s pronounced “Tee-er-See.” Just observed.
While I’ve also observed this with my adopted home of San Antonio, the sense is that people come and go, as do human structures, and the land remains its enchanted self.
Truth or Consequences, little town situated more or less in the middle of the state? Named for a TV game show, with the town’s original name being a more descriptive, “Hot Springs.”
Working for 25 years in and around El Paso (TX), which would include its weird non-suburb, Las Cruces (NM)? That’s how I heard about the miraculous, healing hot springs, and stumbled into the little resort up there.
Fishing, too, fishing at the “Butt,” or as the map calls, “Elephant Butte Lake.” That’s how I discovered the places there. Local lore, because I graduated high school not far from there,
This was just a post-Saturn-conjunct-Pluto visit.
Sliding along the two and four lane state highway, to me, the low road, sort of following the Rio Grande? The last 30 miles into Marathon, the first stop, that last stretch, out past Sanderson, it always feels so familiar. Been this way before, feels like, many times.
One morning in Marathon? Next to the historic Gage Hotel, there’s a coffee shop, currently called V6. I guess. Stepping inside to refill coffee cups, I ordered a single shot of espresso. The person behind the counter had a spooky resonance for me. Virgo. She was a doppelgänger — sign, footwear, attire, lonely coffee shop on a forgotten highway, beauty, not quite feral, surrounded by natural, arid splendor.
First thought?
“Virgo.”
I asked.
I’d say it spooked me but it didn’t. Just verified a “feeling,” a premonition. The rest of the list? I was also wondering why the sign, looking out through the window, the name V6 looked like a Capricorn glyph. Saturn and Pluto, conjunct. Glad Aquarius got started.
It’s still a long way to T or C.
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
Regrettably, not in Pink Cake.
Pink Cake: The Quote Collection – Kramer Wetzel
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I’m getting a little guilty feeling about Stuart Woods and his Stone Barrington character. Three, four novels per year? I tend to read them voraciously, as the material itself is lightweight, but engaging. Novelist eye for detail, and maybe that’s why I read the books, it’s the details the author selects to describe the scene.
After something like 50 of these, I would get bored, but as serial entertainment? Works well enough.
I liked it better when I could pick them up at Costco, as that seemed to be the least expensive route to take to buy the “best sellers” of the day. It’s either that or the two retail giants, B&N or Amazon. Costco is less, but the other two are always within pennies in their prices.
La vida Buena? So it would seem.
Possible typo, page 261 of the Overdrive version of the novel page 208 in the hardback — that’s exciting for me, the usual prose marred by a single missing letter. One of the reasons I find this canon of work so easily digestible, in a tasteful way, is the unusually high quality of writerly writing. Not fancy, just enjoyable with an absolute lack of style. Damn near error-free. Don’t think there’s been a typo in any of the last dozen or so, if ever.
The last few Stone Barrington novels have had a breakneck, jet-set pace. This was a more leisurely pace, more like a sitting-room drama, in my mind, Victorian in nature. Not as frenetic a pace with more nuanced shading of character. Rogues, villains, rough justice, sure, but a finer, deft yet delicate touch — but maybe only because I have a shelf full of matching hardbacks.
Then, the ending. Ok, so I was not pleased, it built to a timely, complex climax only to suggest — “To Be Continued…”
Why I like the serial nature of the work.
“The school of hard knocks
is an accelerated curriculum.”
- Menander
Pink Cake: The Quote Collection – Kramer Wetzel
Pink Cake: A Commonplace Book
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