McTeague - by Frank Norris.

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McTeague is an 1899 novel by Frank Norris. (US Edition)  (UK Edition)  Film buffs will know the novel was adapted as the famous silent film, “Greed.”  And this writer saw a wonderful adaptation at Lyric Opera in Chicago.  Needless to say, this book is timeless.  It is a gritty story set in San Francisco.

On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna's saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the pitcher there on his way to dinner.

They still drink steam beer in San Francisco! Anchor Steam brews it and per their website, the name “steam” likely relates to the original practice of fermenting the beer on San Francisco’s rooftops in a cool climate. In lieu of ice, the foggy night air naturally cooled the fermenting beer, creating steam off the warm open pans.”  See what you can learn here!

McTeague is a dentist . . . in love . . .

Little by little, by gradual, almost imperceptible degrees, the thought of Trina Sieppe occupied his mind from day to day, from hour to hour. He found himself thinking of her constantly; at every instant he saw her round, pale face; her narrow, milk-blue eyes; her little out-thrust chin; her heavy, huge tiara of black hair. At night he lay awake for hours under the thick blankets of the bed-lounge, staring upward into the darkness, tormented with the idea of her, exasperated at the delicate, subtle mesh in which he found himself entangled. During the forenoons, while he went about his work, he thought of her. As he made his plaster-of-paris moulds at the washstand in the corner behind the screen he turned over in his mind all that had happened, all that had been said at the previous sitting. Her little tooth that he had extracted he kept wrapped in a bit of newspaper in his vest pocket.

Ahh, love! But love meets reality . . .

The very act of submission that bound the woman to him forever had made her seem less desirable in his eyes. Their undoing had already begun. Yet neither of them was to blame. From the first they had not sought each other. Chance had brought them face to face, and mysterious instincts as ungovernable as the winds of heaven were at work knitting their lives together. 

"In my beginning is my end.”  Enjoy.

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