to read books, I also depend on my own enthusiasm and connecting what we read no matter how alien to their lives on the surface, that we are all human and share the same human emotions and can say and do and even write beautiful things. I enjoyed your piece very much
Thank you for this piece! It really spoke to me as an instructor of writing and literature and as someone who has been slowly getting back to reading/rereading things that I want to read and have nothing to do with my work/research.
of course im paraphrasing the last line in SONG OF SOLOMON: "As fleet and bright as a lodestar he wheeled toward Guitar and it did not matter which one of them would give up his ghost in the killing arms of his brother. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
Yes to this.
Amen
to read books, I also depend on my own enthusiasm and connecting what we read no matter how alien to their lives on the surface, that we are all human and share the same human emotions and can say and do and even write beautiful things. I enjoyed your piece very much
P.S. And I too am a Met fan and almost gave up on them in May and then they made me quite happy.
As a literature teacher at St. Francis College where half my effort is trying to get students
Thank you for this piece! It really spoke to me as an instructor of writing and literature and as someone who has been slowly getting back to reading/rereading things that I want to read and have nothing to do with my work/research.
“that if you surrender to the air, to the words, to the song, you could fly.”
Wow.
of course im paraphrasing the last line in SONG OF SOLOMON: "As fleet and bright as a lodestar he wheeled toward Guitar and it did not matter which one of them would give up his ghost in the killing arms of his brother. For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
So true! I wondered if those phrases would qualify as biographemes ? Of a sort? If I understood the idea correctly.
they definitely that that quality... "biographemes ... suggests minimum units of life, fragments of experience, abandoned objects, anecdotes."
Thanks. One to think about more.