![]() ![]() And now, though it sounds strange to say, he was making me sadder with his sadness, and I thought, Well, sir, if we are going to make a sadness party of it, I have some sadness about which I think someone as powerful as you might like to know. All of us, white and black, had made him sadder, with our sadness. He had not, it seemed, gone unaffected by that event. ![]() By all of us, black and white, who had so recently mass-inhabited him. That had just been opened up somewhat wider. The bulk of the novel, which takes place over the course of a single evening, is set in the bardo an intermediate space between life and rebirth. Or rather, he had once had such an aversion, still bore traces of it, but, in examining that aversion, pushing it into the light, had somewhat, already, eroded it. The novel takes place during and after the death of Abraham Lincoln 's son William 'Willie' Wallace Lincoln and deals with the president's grief at his loss. He had no aversion to me, is how I might put it. I don’t know why I felt that way but I did. I began to feel afraid, occupying someone so accomplished. ![]()
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