601 Pages of Amazing

I hesitate to foist books on friends. What I love will either be loved with the same ferocity (as when I asked my friend Ranse to read London’s “Call of the Wild”) or it will be sheepishly returned with some variation of “Sorry, I didn’t have time” (translation: I hated it by page two). It’s a crap shoot.

I fell in love with John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” just about ten years ago after it was recommended to me by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, and have spoken of it enthusiastically to those I think may appreciate it, but I’ve stopped pushing it and I’ve stopped loaning it. However, in doing some Life Coach work this week I was asked to write about the common themes in my favorite books, movies, and poetry, and I pulled out my treasured copy of EOE and re-read the passage which resonated so deeply with me that it was absolutely life-changing.

The balance of this blog post is just that: my favorite passage from Steinbeck’s novel.
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