Morning Reading: The Bus

 

Morning Reading Friday 26 January 2024 The Bus (story) by Isaac Bashevis Singer (kindle)

Two lines I noted:

Good God, my father and my grandfather were right to avoid looking at women! Every encounter between a man and a woman leads to sin, disappointment, humiliation.

     "I'm finished," I said. "Gastronomically and otherwise."

     "Don't rush," she said. "Unlike the driver of our ill-starred bus, the forces that drive us mad have all the time in the world."