We live our life forwards, but review our life backwards.
Now, in later life, the pinpricks of significance of the astringent events of earlier life still find a way to smuggle themselves into the random thoughts and quotidian events of the everyday, still find a way to breech the impermeable walls of memory, quite uninvited.
I conclude that attempting to wrangle time and space is a task best granted to either Marcel Proust, L. P. Hartley or Albert Einstein.
This book may be of interest: The Unmasking Style in Social Theory. It speaks to some of your interests as a literary critic. The book is a critique of unmasking, not an endorsement of it.
Do books change with us? No. We change, and the books change in our eyes. There is a season for every book. Read it too early, it means one thing. We may not even like it. We may be baffled. Read it later, and we may be moved and "enlightened."
Beautiful. Superb.
We live our life forwards, but review our life backwards.
Now, in later life, the pinpricks of significance of the astringent events of earlier life still find a way to smuggle themselves into the random thoughts and quotidian events of the everyday, still find a way to breech the impermeable walls of memory, quite uninvited.
I conclude that attempting to wrangle time and space is a task best granted to either Marcel Proust, L. P. Hartley or Albert Einstein.
Thanks Keith, great comment.
Love, love, love this analysis, Nick! Thoughtful analysis makes me want to reflect on books I've revisited, and revisit those I haven't.
Thanks!
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This book may be of interest: The Unmasking Style in Social Theory. It speaks to some of your interests as a literary critic. The book is a critique of unmasking, not an endorsement of it.
Do books change with us? No. We change, and the books change in our eyes. There is a season for every book. Read it too early, it means one thing. We may not even like it. We may be baffled. Read it later, and we may be moved and "enlightened."