![]() Mind the same way a reader flips back through a book at will, and glean the In his old age: he can view his life in its totality, trying on past states of ![]() Instead of an inexorableĭeclining towards death-a story of loss-the archbishop seems to gain a superpower They were all within reach of his hand, and all comprehensible.” Own consciousness none of his former states of mind were lost or outgrown. Time, and it had already ceased to count for him. Instead, “he was soon to have done with calendared But he isn’t infirm, Cather tells us, and his Written in American fiction.” The titularĪrchbishop is close to death, and his caretakers sometimes call him back to the Literary critic James Wood has called “some of the most exquisite pages ever ![]() White people, all pueblos and mesas and clouds. Geometric landscape of an 1850s New Mexico on the cusp of being settled by It’s a beautiful book, filled with the strange I recently read, on a hankering for something old andĬomes for the Archbishop. ![]()
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