![Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King has been in my hands for months now, and at last I’ve finished the little Nobel Prize winner!I loved Gene Henderson’s burly fumbling and chain-like thinking all through Africa with his trusty guide Romilayu. I love how sentimental he is with his wife: “Lily, I probably haven’t said this lately, but I have true feeling for you, baby, which sometimes wrings my heart. You can call it love. Although personally I think that word is full of bluff.”;how badly he wishes to nail exactly what the voice in his head wants, wants, wants; the conversations between him and King Dahfu: ” […]A hit B? B hit C? —we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him […]”;and, of course, the romps with the lion.My first Saul Bellow will not be my last.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltn5doMQet1qzown3o1_400.jpg)
Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King has been in my hands for months now, and at last I’ve finished the little Nobel Prize winner!
I loved Gene Henderson’s burly fumbling and chain-like thinking all through Africa with his trusty guide Romilayu.
I love how sentimental he is with his wife:
“Lily, I probably haven’t said this lately, but I have true feeling for you, baby, which sometimes wrings my heart. You can call it love. Although personally I think that word is full of bluff.”;
how badly he wishes to nail exactly what the voice in his head wants, wants, wants;
the conversations between him and King Dahfu: ” […]A hit B? B hit C? —we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him […]”;
and, of course, the romps with the lion.
My first Saul Bellow will not be my last.
