100. Walk with love and death
“I am a coward.”
That was how the book began. It was a novel I was reading not long after I had graduated from high school, and those first words staggered me. I remember staring at those words, unable to continue reading, I was so stunned. Never had a book connected with me so quickly. I was a coward, too. I just never admitted it so openly as did the author of A Walk with Love and Death. The author was Hans Koning, and the book was a medieval love story later made into a movie by John Huston, but none of that mattered. What mattered was that there was another coward on the planet other than me. Even if he was fictional, the words were real enough for me.
My self-image at the time I read that book was based on my ...
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