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In reply to the discussion: A thought on the horrifying airplane accident over France: [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)It is a marvelous short novel. I first read it in high school because my dad recommended it to me. He was pretty cool about literature and steered me towards some authors I would have not otherwise discovered. John Donne, of the great book titles like For Whom the Bell Tolls, I'm looking at you here.
Especially for those of us who are not religious:
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
From the Thornton Wilder Society:
http://www.twildersociety.org/works/the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey/