"The Bridges of Madison County"

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Robert James Waller, "The Bridges of Madison County" (1992)

 

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    "She could see him clearly also, down the flow of her memory. Each year she ran all of the images through her mind, meticulously, remembering everything, forgetting nothing, imprinting all of it, forever, lke tribesmen passing down an oral history through the generations, He was tall and thin and hard, and moved like the grass itself, without effort, gracefully." (p. 24)

 

    "But there was something in Francesca Johnson that did interest him. There was intelligence, he could sense that. And there was passion, though he couldn't quite grasp what that passion was directed toward or if it was directed at all.

 

    Later, he would tell her that in ways undefinable, watching her take off her boots that day was one of the most sensual moments he could remember. Why was not important. That was not the way he approached his life. 'Analysis destroys whole. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.' That's what he said." (p. 39)

 

    "So I wrote this tune -- took me three months. I wanted to keep it simple, elegant. Comples things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. I worked on it every day until I began to get it right. Then I worked on it some more." (p. 168)