Caitlin Thomas Quote

None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.


Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter (1963)


None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, ...

None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, ...

None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, ...

None of what I know is out of books.... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, ...