from Crossing to Safety

[boxofdelights]

for jesse_the_k:

And so, by circuitous and unpredictable routes, we converge toward midcontinent and meet in Madison, and are at once drawn together, braided and plaited into a friendship. It is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

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speechless again

[jesse_the_k]

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[jesse_the_k]

So, is this from a WisCon Chronicles?

[boxofdelights]

It is so appropriate to Wiscon, but it is a quote from Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety, about the lifelong friendship between two couples, who meet in 1937 as instructors at the university there.

Nifty!

[jesse_the_k]

....and available as a library ebook from the comfort of my couch.