But the decisions made for us and the decisions we make every day serve to winnow out our options.
On the day we are born the options available to us seem limitless. I've sometimes thought of the arc of a person's life as one that consists of a series of narrowing options. NYRB Books is reissuing Simenon's hard novels. Although best known for his Inspector Maigret detective novels, Simenon also wrote over a hundred novels that he referred to as `romans durs' (literally "hard novels"). Simenon's obsession with writing caused him to break off an affair (he was prolific in this area of his life as well) with the celebrated Josephine Baker in Paris when he could only write twelve novels in the twelve month period in which they were involved. Born in Belgium in 1903, Simenon turned out hundreds of novels. Georges Simenon was nothing if not prolific in both his literary and public life. Where there was no way to turn aside either to the right hand or to the left." Numbers 22:26
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