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from Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King (these spotty damn mangoes)

  • Writer: Yeshua Tolle
    Yeshua Tolle
  • Dec 14, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Nov 15


It could be time we were blown off this earth. If only we didn’t have hearts we wouldn’t know how sad it was. But we carry around these hearts, these spotty damn mangoes in our breasts, which give us away.

—Henderson in Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King (1959)


Close-up of yellow-black spotty mangoes on a stone surface

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