![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Baldwin created such an intense and suffocating piece. The characters are tangled up with each other, muddled, two-faced, broken, angry, and pitiful. The characters, too, were always seeking refuge, always trying to find some relief as they drank cheap whiskey, their skin stuck to the furniture, their foreheads damp, their worlds colliding and falling. It was fitting that I read Another Country while camped out under the air conditioner or sweltering in the park or seeking solace by the ocean. It was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it.īut it was only love which could accomplish the miracle of making a life bearable – only love, and love itself mostly failed. It was fitting that I read Another Country while camped out under the air conditioner or sweltering in the park or seeki All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrevocable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever. But it was only love which could accomplish the miracle of making a life bearable – only love, and love itself mostly failed. It was unimaginable that time could do anything to diminish it. All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrevocable, and love was simple and even pain had the dignity of enduring forever. ![]()
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