an excerpt from "The Museum Guard" by Howard Norman.

"...And in advance, we can almost feel it, can't we? And in that sense we are tensed for an experience we shall never have. Time is stopped. And this, dears, is what the Dutch critic L. Van Kellik called 'the infinite passion of expectation.' "

I especially liked that last bit, hence the italics.

I don't like the book much thus far...too much sex...and it's weird. Very Canadian. But the cover looks cool, and Joanna gave it to me for Christmas and so, I shall finish it.