This blog's purpose is to promote the novel, The Long Habit of Living, by Mark Zipoli. Posts have excerpts from the book and related visuals to give the reader a heightened literary experience. Oftentimes posts may refer to my championing the works of John Cowper Powys, Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing, Anita Brookner, and other heroes.
From page 209 of the book: "...Their youth ended in 1939, when the seven were on a hike in the Hills of Brittany. ...a jolt in the fault line, engendered by what no one could say, broke the sitting hill of sand and took Ebert's brother down with the ensuing collapse."
and what made 1939 worse? A year later...
" ...he'd graduated in a Paris occupied by the Nazis."