Did I hear Saramago died and not know? Or did I know and I forgot? Or did I block that until I was ready to confront it because I was going through my own things? But a guy on GOODREADS had this on his profile, so there you go. Go get THE ELEPHANT'S JOURNEY today, at your library!

rip josé de sousa saramago 1922-2010

"I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all."