When God Laughs Synopsis
When God Laughs and other short stories by Jack London is a collection of stories published in the early 1900’s.
See also: White Fang, The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, and Martin Eden by Jack London
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“Carquinez had relaxed finally. He stole a glance at the rattling windows,
looked upward at the beamed roof, and listened for a moment to the savage
roar of the south-easter as it caught the bungalow in its bellowing jaws.
Then he held his glass between him and the fire and laughed for joy through
the golden wine.
“It is beautiful,” he said. “It is sweetly sweet. It is a woman’s wine, and it
was made for gray-robed saints to drink.”
“We grow it on our own warm hills,” I said, with pardonable California
pride. “You rode up yesterday through the vines from which it was made.”
It was worth while to get Carquinez to loosen up. Nor was he ever really
himself until he felt the mellow warmth of the vine singing in his blood. He
was an artist, it is true, always an artist; but somehow, sober, the high pitch
and lilt went out of his thought-processes and he was prone to be as deadly
dull as a British Sunday—not dull as other men are dull, but dull when
measured by the sprightly wight that Monte Carquinez was when he was
really himself.”
-Excerpt from When God Laughs