Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

“Sixty acres with a good return & a penful of hog & thirty head cattle & six fine horses & a cobbled stone house hug as a cradle in winter & a fine wife who looks adoringly at me & three fine boys who hang on my every word & a fine orchard giving pears apples plums peaches & still Father don’t care for me? - lance durning” pg. 206

“They dined on tender pheasant, fat partridge, venison steaks, and Virginia hams; they battened upon canvasback ducks and fresh turkeys, and thousands of tidewater oysters shucked an hour since and iced, slurped raw, scalloped in butter and cracker meal, or stewed in milk. - Epstein, op. cit.” pg. 15

“Thank you so much, for saying my pickles were excellent. Thanks for saying that, of all of the pickles being made in the nation at that time, mine were, by far, the best. - lawrence t. detroix” pg. 209

“Nice bread too. - best baron” pg. 218

“The flowing sugar gown of Lady Liberty descended like drapery upon a Chinese pagoda, inside of which, in a pond of candy floss, swam miniature fish of chocolate. Nearby, lusty angels of cake waved away bees hung aloft on the thinnest strings of glaze. - Wickett, op. cit.” pg. 14

“Getting up out of bed and going down to the party, allowed
Candy bees, allowed
Chunks of cake, allowed!
…. willie lincoln” pg. 301

“A wall of water rushed in from the north, then divided itself with military precision into dozens of sub-streams, such that each stone home and sick-mound soon had its own dedicated tributary; the water in these tributaries than rather flamboyantly converting itself to coffee, wine, whiskey, and back into water again. - hans vollman” pg. 90