A Kind of Light Spread Out from Her

Eden Wilson-Bates (oh, and her dad Toby)

Eden Wilson-Bates (oh, and her dad Toby)

Tuesday

When I posted on literary associations with Eden–the name of my latest granddaughter—I missed one of the obvious ones. Luckily my son, who currently teaches English as a post-doc at  Georgia Tech, was more alert than I. He posted the following passage from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden to accompany the picture above:

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything.

Meanwhile, I want to say, with Miranda in The Tempest, “Oh brave new world, that has such people in it!”

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