My Beating Heart~

Sometimes this can be a very good thing~ others, depending on what I'm remembering it can make me feel very sad~

"The past beats inside me like a second heart." 

John Banville

Happy 70th birthday, John Banville! The Booker Prize-winning novelist also writes crime fiction under the name Benjamin Black—he has said that books written under his own name, like The Sea, can take up to five years to write, while books written under his pseudonym are finished in under five months.