The World Is the Home of Love and Death

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Harold Brodkey. The World Is the Home of Love and Death

THE WORLD IS THE HOME OF LOVE AND DEATH. Harold Brodkey

CONTENTS

THE BULLIES

SPRING FUGUE

WHAT I DO FOR MONEY

RELIGION

WAKING

CAR BUYING

LILA AND S.L

JIBBER-JABBER IN LITTLE ROCK

THE WORLD IS THE HOME OF LOVE AND DEATH

DUMBNESS IS EVERYTHING

A GUEST IN THE UNIVERSE

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

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Ida’s personal fires are alight and skeletal. They are not like the expansive whirlwinds and fires in which Momma is trapped and consumed; Ida’s have focus and great style. Momma feels Ida’s unforgivingness as character and strength, but it’s directed toward what Lila is—a beauty of a certain kind, a flirt and willful, a Jew—and that is unforgivable. But that’s how things are. You have to take love as you find it.

Ma’s tolerance and acquisitiveness and Ida’s nervousness—and her courage—are the paramount social factors, the strong movers in the board game, in the scene: both women tacitly agree on that. The soft surrenders (Lila’s phrase) that go with love when it works are what Ida was forbidding in her love speech.

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